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Japan’s ANA will begin routes with Boeing 787 flights this Sunday
TransportJapan’s All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing’s 787 “Dreamliner,” will resume commercial flights of the aircraft on Sunday, just over four months after the jets were grounded due to smoldering batteries. ANA said in a statement that it will run five commercial 787 flights in May, before regular, scheduled services begin on June [...]
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United returns Dreamliners to service today: Boeing’s problem child gets a lift
TransportUnited Airlines is getting its 787s back in the air. The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines. The incidents included an emergency landing of one plane, and a fire on another. The incidents never caused any serious injuries. [...]
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The FAA couldn’t afford to test 787 batteries, so it outsourced it to Boeing
TransportFederal regulators certifying the safety of the 787′s lithium-ion batteries never visited the battery’s manufacturer in Japan nor the company that designed the surrounding battery system in France, according to testimony at an investigative hearing Wednesday. That was one of the jobs entrusted to Boeing employees who were handling much of the Federal Aviation Administration‘s [...]
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FAA announces formal approval of Boeing Dreamliner battery changes
TransportRegulators on Friday approved a revamped battery system for Boeing Co’s 787 Dreamliner, a crucial step in returning the high-tech jet to service after more than three months of grounding prompted by lithium-ion batteries that burned on the planes. The Federal Aviation Administration said it approved a package of detailed design changes, a move that [...]
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Lithium batteries are ok to use in aircrafts, according to experts
TransportLithium-ion batteries like the ones that overheated on two Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliners can be made safe enough for even the most critical transportation uses, according to three experts who will speak at a forum today. “The batteries are continuing to get better and safer,” Dan Doughty, of Battery Safety Consulting Inc. in Albuquerque, New [...]
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Boeing says 787 safety tests half done now, demo flight coming soon
TransportBoeing said it has finished more than half of the testing on its proposed battery fix for the 787, with the rest of the ground and flight tests coming in the next several days. The test results so far have been in line with the testing Boeing did when it was developing the fix, spokesman [...]
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Air India will seek damages from Boeing over Dreamliner grounding
TransportAir India Ltd. will seek at least 2 billion rupees ($37 million) from Boeing Co. to compensate losses at the state-owned carrier following grounding of its 787 aircraft, a person familiar with the matter said. The carrier will raise the claim with Boeing shortly, said the official, who declined to be identified citing rules. G. [...]
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Dreamliner grounding delays United’s Denver-Tokyo service launch again
TransportUnited Airlines is delaying its new Denver-Tokyo service — again — because its new Boeing 787 jets remain grounded. United said Friday that service between Denver and Tokyo’s Narita Airport will begin June 10. The airline had already pushed back the original March 31 start to at least May 12. The airline said that it [...]
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Boeing uses tougher battery standards in effort to get Dreamliner aloft
TransportTo get its 787 Dreamliner flying again, Boeing Co is testing the plane’s volatile battery system to a rigorous standard that the company itself helped develop – but that it never used on the jet. Boeing’s decision has thrust an arcane standard known as RTCA to the center of the debate over whether Boeing and [...]
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Where will Boeing find space to park all those grounded Dreamliners?
TransportPaine Field Airport, next door to Boeing Co’s widebody plant north of Seattle, is getting crowded as 10 new 787 Dreamliners flank the runway, sparkling with contrasting and colorful liveries, including Poland’s LOT, Britain’s Thomson Airways and China Southern Airlines . It is a similar story several thousand miles away, outside the company’s North Charleston, [...]
