In-flight entertainment systems linked to scores of jet 'difficulties'

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:06:26 +0200
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Subject: In-flight entertainment systems linked to scores of jet
'difficulties'

In-flight entertainment systems linked to scores of jet 'difficulties'
Wed Jul 9, 6:35 AM ET
Gary Stoller USA TODAY

As a Boeing 757 airliner climbed to 14,000 feet in March, a routine takeoff
suddenly became an emergency. Sparks and smoke came out of the passenger
cabin's in-flight entertainment system, cockpit instrument lights lit up,
and the rudder and control wheel moved.

The pilots, who reported the incident to a government safety database, said
they returned for an ''uneventful'' landing. The database doesn't identify
the airline involved or the U.S. airport the flight diverted to, but the
timing of the event was significant.

It was the same month the Canadian government concluded that entertainment
system wiring may have caused or contributed to a fire that sent a Swissair
jet into the ocean near Nova Scotia in 1998, killing all 229 aboard. The
Canadian Transportation Safety Board said an entertainment system wire or
another wire short-circuited, creating a fiery electric arc that ignited
acoustic insulation blankets.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-07-08-plane-cover_x.htm

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