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Battery overheated as test not adequate
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JAPAN’S transport authority said yesterday that a lack of appropriate testing may have contributed to a lithium-ion battery overheating on board a Boeing 787 Dreamliner owned by ANA Holdings, which led to the grounding of the Dreamliner fleet globally for more than three months.
In its final 115-page report on the ANA incident, the Japan Transport Safety Board said it was unable to find the root cause of the overheating.
The JTSB, however, said that during the device’s development, engineers failed to identify the possibility that a short circuit in one cell could spread to other cells because they did not ground the device. This may have caused the battery to overheat, it added.
“The test conducted during the development phase did not appropriately simulate the onboard configuration, and the effects of the internal short circuit were underestimated,” the JTSB said in its report.
Boeing said its tests on the battery were in line with regulations.
“At the time, the industry standard was to conduct such tests on an electrically isolated battery. Those standards are unchanged today,” said a Boeing spokesman in Tokyo.
The report, which also pointed to cold winter air damaging the battery cells and electrical wiring as possible factors in the incident, recommended that the Federal Aviation Authority should “provide instructions to airplane manufacturers and equipment manufacturers to perform equipment tests simulating actual flight operations.”
Boeing won approval for its Dreamliner jets to resume flying after it redesigned the battery compartment to isolate any future thermal events and vent hot gases outside the aircraft.
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