The FAA is crafting an airworthiness directive requiring mandatory inspections of the Boeing 787’s emergency locator transmitters following a fire on board a Dreamliner parked at London Heathrow International Airport earlier this month.
The fire aboard the Ethopian Airlines 787 on July 12 burned the top of the jetliner’s fuselage in an area where the Honeywell-made 406-MHz ELTs are housed. Boeing and the FAA quickly determined the fire was unrelated to the backup batteries that grounded the entire 787 fleet worldwide earlier this year.
