In the light of the low reliability and highfailurerateofbeampumping units, asystem reliability synthetic appraisal and distributionmethodconsideringpredictedfailurerate is introduced.
"The failurerate was higher than predicted as part of the certification process and the possibility that a short circuit in a single cell could propagate to adjacent cells and result in smoke and fire must be reconsidered, " said Deborah Hersman, the head of NTSB.