Boeing engineers repairing the Ethiopian Airlines 787-8 stranded at London Heathrow for five months since it was badly damaged by a fire have replaced a large section of the upper fuselage structure and refitted the tail unit as part of efforts to return the aircraft to service early next year. The fire, which erupted in one of the 787's Honeywell-made Rescu 406AFN emergency locator transmitters (ELT) while the aircraft was parked between flights on July 12, scorched the crown of the fuselage forward of the tail fin leading edge, and caused major smoke damage to the interior as a whole.
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