Posts Tagged ‘787’

787 Cleared To Restart Test Flights

  US agencies cleared Boeing to restart test flights of its grounded 787 Dreamliner in order to get more data on potentially faulty batteries, but they also demanded a closer look at how the batteries were approved, which ...


Boeing Working On 787 Battery Changes

  Boeing is working on battery design changes that would reduce fire risks on its grounded 787 Dreamliner and could have the passenger jet flying again as soon as March, the Wall Street Journal reported. Separately, US avi...



NTSB Takes Microscope To Damaged 787 Battery

  The US National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday it was carrying out a detailed, microscopic investigation of a battery that caught fire on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Boston as the probe dragged into a fourth ...


787 Probe Puts Spotlight on Battery Charger

  US National Transportation Safety Board investigators will travel to Arizona based Securaplane Technologies, which makes battery chargers used on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, to test and examine the charger. Fiona Greig, a...



ANA Cancels 171 More Flights Over Grounded 787s

  All Nippon Airways said on Monday it has cancelled 151 domestic and 26 international flights scheduled for January 23-28 after the grounding of the carrier’s Boeing 787 Dreamliners, affecting more than 21,000 passe...


787 Probe Widens After Excess Battery Voltage Ruled Out

  US safety investigators on Sunday ruled out excess voltage as the cause of a battery fire last month on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner operated by Japan Airlines and said they were expanding the probe to look at the batteryR...