Norwegian Air Grounds Faulty Dreamliner for ‘Reliability’ Tests
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Norwegian Air Shuttle AS is taking one of its Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes out of service for repairs and will lease an Airbus A340 to ensure all scheduled fights continue to run between Sweden and the U.S. and Thailand.
The Dreamliner, Norwegian Air’s second, will be taken “out of operation for maintenance work and testing so it can give us the reliability we expect,” Lasse Sandaker-Nielsen, a spokesman for Norwegian Air, said by phone today. The plane is stranded in Bangkok after a hydraulic pump broke and will be returned to Stockholm today or tomorrow.