...to igniting if they short-circuit or overheat than other types of batteries.The Boston fire occurred aboard a Japan Airlines plane that had just landed after an overseas flight and was parked. A cleaning crew discovered smoke near a kitchen...
...while the battery with the fire in Boston was a Japan Airlines plane. About one-third of each Dreamliner <...connector on the outside of the battery box in the Japan Airlines plane, not in the battery itself. The white gas...
...in the battery pack of an auxiliary power unit of a Japan Airlines 787 empty of passengers as the plane sat on the tarmac...leak delayed a flight from Boston to Tokyo of another Japan Airlines 787.On Friday, Japan's All Nippon Airways reported...
...lithium ion batteries to power aircraft systems, even though it's clear that safeguards failed in the case of a Japan Airlines 787 that had a battery fire while parked at Boston's Logan International Airport last month."Obviously what...
...determine the cause of the fire on board an empty, parked Japan Airlines plane Monday in Boston. Officials have said one of...production of its big planes.Besides the fire, another Japan Airlines plane leaked 40 gallons of fuel at Boston Logan on...
...accident. ANA, which operates 17 of the jets, and Japan Airlines, which has seven, said they won't fly their 787s...ANA in late 2011.Just last week, a battery on a Japan Airlines 787 caught fire soon after the plane landed at Boston's...
...design limits.The similarity of the burned battery from the All Nippon Airways flight to the burned battery in a Japan Airlines 787 that caught fire Jan. 7 while the jet was parked at Boston's Logan International Airport suggests a common...
...batteries some 10 times because they didn't keep a charge properly or connections with electrical systems failed. Japan Airlines also said it had replaced some 787 batteries.Shares of Chicago-based Boeing rose 88 cents to $74.53 in afternoon...
...Transportation Safety Board is still probably weeks away from determining the root cause of the Jan. 7 battery fire in a Japan Airlines 787 parked at Boston's Logan International Airport, NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman told reporters this week...
...largest commercial aircraft maker.The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the battery fire in a Japan Airlines 787 that was discovered shortly after the plane landed at Boston's Logan International Airport on Jan. 7. Japanese...