Question of the Week: Risk Tolerance and the 787

Editorial Staff

Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

The grounding of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet due to a battery fire emergency is highlighted as an extremely rare and significant event.
Readers are invited to participate in a poll questioning the necessity of keeping Dreamliners out of the air.
The article references results from a previous "Question of the Week" and solicits suggestions for future poll questions.

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Grounding any aircraft is rare, and halting the flights of an airliner extremely so.

Is keeping Dreamliners out of the air necessary?
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