Two months ago, in Boston, a fire broke out on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, and firefighters suffered "smoke", describing the accident as more serious than previously described, according to the new document issued by the National Transportation Safety Commission.
A firefighter reported that they saw "a white glow with a radiant heat wave," but there was no flame in the battery pack that caught fire on January.
According to an interim report released by NTSB on Thursday, Logan International Airport.
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The boxed battery is overheated.
Lithium-ion batteries are larger versions of batteries that power laptops or mobile phones.
Since the second battery accident caused an emergency landing in Japan nine days after the Boston fire, Dreamliners around the world have been grounded.
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Transport Minister Ray Lahoud said in January that he would not let the plane fly again until he was "1,000 sure" that the Dream Plane was safe.
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Bloomberg News reported that some other battery solutions would lift the plane back into the air, citing five people familiar with the situation who were not authorized to speak publicly.
According to reports released, Boeing hopes to insulate its batteries and build a better box to contain any fires.
Federal Aviation Administration officials are expected to make a decision soon on whether to approve Boeing's plans to renovate 78 7 lithium-ion batteries to prevent or contain future fires.
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Professor Elliot of materials chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believes that this is not enough to return the Dreamliner to the sky.
"How do we make sure we don't get into a fire at the beginning?
I haven't heard enough news to comfort me. "Said Sadoway.
A fire broke out in Boston on an overhead Japanese airline Dreamliner, which flew straight from Tokyo with 184 passengers.
The first firefighter to enter the plane reported that he saw "white light about the size of a softball" in the smoke with his hand"held heat-imaging camera.
According to the NTSB report, a firefighter reported in response to the fire that "the battery hisses and the liquid flows out along the side of the battery box ".
NTSB said in the report that another firefighter reported that he had heard the "pop" sound and that the smoke began to "pour out" from the electronics bay ".
Overall, it took an hour and 40 minutes to put out the fire.
There are about 50 Dreamliners flying around the world, mainly for Japanese airlines, as well as Polish and Chilean airlines.
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The Boeing 787 is touted as an aircraft carrier for future aircraft.