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Experienced since there was a major fire during a test flight in 2010. in december there were three less serious electrical problems. a flight had to be diverted. the same problem grounded another plane a week later. then a united plane was taken out of service to replace a power panel and a general raeurt. the big concern is the 787 uses a lot more electric treus teen other planes and the problems keep occurring. it s all electrical power. and that generates a lot of heat, just an enormous amount of heat that therefore has to be cooled, and if you don t cool it then you have failures in the bay, you have fail tphurs systems and so on. reporter: boeing says it looks like yesterday s fire was due to a battery overheating and is not related to the other problems. still it is a big concern for a company that has sung billions of dollars into this new plane and is perhaps many years away ....