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by jacquesm 4898 days ago
Cockpit wiring issues will likely take more than just a few weeks to fix and be re-certified. There are miles and miles of cable in the front of an aircraft, just figuring out what went wrong, engineering a fix, fixing all the planes and getting the fix certified for passenger flights is a fair sized job. Nobody is going to take any chances with stuff like this.
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although less than previous aircraft from my understanding. I think i remember saying that the 787 Wiring harness was simplified by replacing alot of cables and wires with a Ethernet like bus for data.
Last thing I heard this was a battery issue. Have they already narrowed it down to cockpit wiring or are you just speculating based on your knowledge of aeronautics & place circuitry ?
Apologies, this is now outdated, the first time I heard about it there was talk of a cockpit wiring issue, it seems that there is now more information available.