"A source familiar with the incident says the fire had broken out in the aft electronics equipment bay, causing the flight deck primary flight displays and auto throttle to fail. The aircraft's ram turbine was deployed while landing, which was conducted in visual flight rules conditions, adds the source."http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/11/10/boeing.dreamliner.test/?hpt=T2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdsGaOMr8gk&feature=related

ohhhhh my ,,really really not good news

ohhhhh my ,,really really not good news

No its not. It ounly sounds worse when you hear that there were systems in place to prevent this failiure and none of them seemed to work.

Yes it's a setback, but you also have to remember the aircraft is in testing, and the point of testing is to check if something performs as expected. Clearly, it didn't, and therefore it will be corrected, making the aircraft safer.You can always learn from your mistakes :)

Well.....oh...........well another set back.:(

...there were systems in place to prevent this failiure and none of them seemed to work.

No serious source said anything to this effect (I stick with Jon Ostrower since he's got intimate knowledge of everything that relates to this project). All back up systems kicked in and worked fine. There are no systems to 'prevent a failure', at most there can be systems that take over from a failed component. They lost the P100 which is responsible for power distribution from one of the engines and this immediately causes shedding of power throughout aircraft - this is how aircraft electrical systems are designed. Their displays for example went into the reversionary mode. The investigation of course is in progress.