Boeing Tests 787 Fix With Japan Customers First in Line
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Boeing Co. plans a final 787 test flight in “coming days” after taking the grounded Dreamliner aloft yesterday to evaluate fixes to lithium-ion batteries that overheated on two aircraft earlier this year.
If the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approves the changes and allows the airplane to resume commercial flights, Chicago-based Boeing would make the battery upgrades to aircraft in roughly the order that they were delivered to customers, said Marc Birtel, a Boeing spokesman. That would put All Nippon Airways Co. and Japan Airlines Co. first in line.