UK AAIB: Boeing 787 emergency locator transmitters should be disabled

[UPDATED] The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has recommended that the Honeywell emergency locator transmitter (ELT) on all in-service Boeing 787s be temporarily made “inert” following a fire on board an Ethiopian Airlines 787-8 last week at London Heathrow Airport. In a special...

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