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Air India's Dreamliners back in the air from today
The Kolkata bound flight will have all the members of Air India's board of directors on board, in what is being seen as a confidence building measure for generating buzz around the beleagured Dreamliners. #air india #CorporateStrategy #Dreamliner #Boeing 787
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Boeing confident of 787 battery getting fixed by mid-May
irlines have begun installing the modifications to the pioneering lithium-ion battery system after the US Federal Aviation Administration approved the Boeing fix last Friday. #NewsTracker #Boeing 787 #boeing battery
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Boeing finishes 787 testing, Dreamliner moves closer to resuming flights
With a successful flight on Friday, Boeing moved closer to proving that a revamped safety system can prevent batteries on its new 787 Dreamliner from catching fire or overheating, and getting back the plane into service. #CompanyWatch #Boeing 787 #Battery problems
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Japan probe finds miswiring of Boeing 787 battery
A probe into the overheating of a lithium ion battery in an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 found it was improperly wired, Japan's Transport Ministry said Wednesday. #NewsTracker #Dreamliner #Transport Safety Board #All Nippon Airways Boeing 787
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Boeing cash drain worries grow as parked 787s multiply
A month after the global fleet of the carbon-composite jets were grounded as US and Japanese regulators carry out investigations into overheating batteries, the parked airliners are a stark symbol of deepening problems this is causing Boeing. #air india #WhatNext #Boeing 787 #Dreamliners #Battery problems
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US clears Boeing 787 for test flights, as delays loom
US agencies cleared Boeing Co to restart test flights of its grounded 787 Dreamliner in order to get more data on potentially faulty batteries. #NewsTracker #Aviation #Boeing 787 #Dreamliners #Federal Aviation Administration
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Lithium batteries in aircraft not necessarily unsafe: US expert
Despite a battery fire in one Boeing 787 Dreamliner and smoke in another, the type of batteries used to power the plane's electrical systems aren't necessarily unsafe. #NewsTracker #Aviation #Boeing 787 Dreamliner #Lithium ion battery #National Transportation Safety Boar #ederal Aviation Administration
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Boeing 787 probe moves to monitoring system maker
All Boeing 787s are grounded after one of the jets made an emergency landing in Japan earlier this month when its main battery overheated. #CompanyWatch #Dreamliner #Boeing 787
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Air India's six Dreamliners to remain grounded till 17 Feb
In effect this means that the newest aircraft in the airline fleet will remain grounded for a month. #air india #NewsTracker #Boeing 787 Dreamliner #FAA
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Boeing probe puts spotlight on Arizona battery firm
Securaplane, a unit of Britain's Meggitt, first began working on the charger in 2004, but suffered millions of dollars of damages in November 2006 after a lithium-ion battery used in testing exploded and sparked a fire that burned an administrative building to the ground. #US #NewsTracker #Boeing 787 #Dreamliners #Securaplane Technologies