Batteries for 787 Can’t Be Shipped on Passenger Planes
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Lithium-ion batteries like those under investigation in the grounding of Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliner shouldn’t be shipped aboard passenger planes, a United Nations aviation agency ruled today.
The International Civil Aviation Organization’s action resulted from probes into 787 batteries that smoked and charred last month in Boston and Japan, Anthony Philbin, a spokesman for the agency in Montreal, said in an interview.