I was speaking with a 787 pilot last Sunday, I told him that the week before when I was at an airport there were two pilots sitting next to me talking about how "This is the third bloody 787 rescue we've had this month... I can't believe we had full engine and <I think he said auxiliary?> failure at the same time" - I asked him if this is common and he said "I hear of it, but I haven't had that many major failures, but lots of little things - last time I flew in from <city> a few moments after we touched down we lost auxiliary power from the rear engine, all the cabin lighting went black along with a number of other things, thankfully we'd already significantly reduced speed and were straight and already lost most of the speed we were carrying, so we were fine and taxied to the disembark location, they had it up and flying again within the day - but it certainly was disconcerting to say the least".
I will be slightly paraphrasing from memory there, but certainly was quite surprised how calm he was about the whole thing, there's no way I'd board one of those things.
I will be slightly paraphrasing from memory there, but certainly was quite surprised how calm he was about the whole thing, there's no way I'd board one of those things.