Second incident involving a JAL 787 at Logan Airport in as many days
BOSTON (AP) - Officials at Boston's Logan International Airport say crews have contained a fuel leak from an outbound Japan Airlines flight to Tokyo in the second incident involving the airline at Logan in two days.
Massachusetts Port Authority spokesman Richard Walsh said the Boeing 787 was towed back to the gate for evaluation early Tuesday afternoon after about 40 gallons of fuel spilled. He said the plane had 178 passengers and 11 crew members on board.
A JAL spokeswoman said the crew reported a "mechanical issue" before returning to the gate.
On Monday, a fire broke out in a battery pack in the belly of a different Japan Airlines plane, filling the cabin with smoke minutes after passengers disembarked.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the fire.
Massachusetts Port Authority spokesman Richard Walsh said the Boeing 787 was towed back to the gate for evaluation early Tuesday afternoon after about 40 gallons of fuel spilled. He said the plane had 178 passengers and 11 crew members on board.
A JAL spokeswoman said the crew reported a "mechanical issue" before returning to the gate.
On Monday, a fire broke out in a battery pack in the belly of a different Japan Airlines plane, filling the cabin with smoke minutes after passengers disembarked.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the fire.
Can't wait for them to start falling out of the sky.
40 gallons of fuel? Hell that's nothing! Back in the day when I used to work on the SR-71 Blackbird we lost at least 400 gallons of fuel before it reached cruising altitude. It just needs to get up to the proper altitude so the seals can tighten up, and stops the bleeding.
Thats what happens when you outsource building of plane parts then hire a buncha hambooger flippers to install them!!!
To bad for Boeing this is not good PR. Sounds like a bunch of engineering problems.
That's the consequence of the $14:00 an hour job in S.C. !
Says the disgruntaled union worker. Grow up.
@scychan .... B.S.!!! Â
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It is the $14.00 hr maintenance jobs... that is the problem... the airlines contracted with the cheapest company to perform maintenance..
Whatever the reason, the 787 sure is getting a bad rap these days.
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Go Airbus!
This is what happens when someone doesn't run the proper procedures after fueling. Mechanical issue is correct someone didn't do their job correctly at the airport and now the media is trying to make a front page story out of it.
 @Northriver What are you an armchair aeronautics engineer? How would you even begin to venture an explanation for this with zero information?
 @Tooby Roosday Another news station stated that the stream of fuel was seen coming from the wing shortly after departure from the gate. I work in the industry a rapid depressurization does not occur from this area unless the outflow valves were not properly turned off after fueling. The crew would see this as a mechanical failure on their instruments since the fuel cell clearly wasn't holding pressure. The same thing happened a flight I was on a few months back...
I think it is better that these incidents are discovered on the ground instead of in the air.