The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has contracted Chesapeake Defense Services to conduct a new round of computed tomography (CT) scans of “aircraft batteries, aircraft battery cells, and other aircraft battery-related components used on Boeing 787 aircraft.”...More
Ethiopian Airlines resumed Boeing 787 Dreamliner service Saturday with a flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, making it the first carrier to relaunch 787 flights since the aircraft was grounded in January....More
All Nippon Airways (ANA), the Boeing 787 launch customer and largest Dreamliner operator with 17 in its fleet, will conduct a 787 proving flight Sunday, an initial step toward resumption of commercial flights with its 787s....More
Boeing has started 787 battery system modifications on 10 in-service fleet aircraft and believes modifications will be completed on nearly all 50 in-service fleet aircraft by mid-May....More
A US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearing on the Jan. 7 Japan Airlines Boeing 787 fire shed little light on the incident’s root cause....More
Extensive testing on lithium ion batteries during the 787 certification process led Boeing to believe that “significant overcharging” was the only occurrence that would cause the batteries to vent fire, according to a senior Boeing executive....More
Boeing is deploying 10 teams comprised of 300 specialists around the world to perform FAA-approved modifications on the 50 787s that were in service when the Dreamliner fleet was grounded Jan. 16....More
FAA has approved Boeing’s design modifications for the 787 battery system, paving the way for the lifting of the grounding of the worldwide Dreamliner fleet imposed Jan. 16....More
Boeing’s more than three-month 787 crisis appears to be over following FAA’s approval of the manufacturer’s fix for the aircraft’s battery system....More
Boeing has been given permission by FAA to resume pre-delivery 787 production flights and operated a production flight Thursday with an All Nippon Airways-bound 787....More
FAA administrator Michael Huerta gave no indication of how close the agency is to approving Boeing’s fix for the 787’s battery system in testimony before Congress....More
Airbus has ruled out offering extra passenger facilities in the under floor or crown of its long-haul aircraft, saying that it adds too much complexity....More
US firm Molon Labe Designs has developed a concept in which narrowbody aisle seats can be manually slid across the middle seat to increase the aisle width from 20-in. to 43-in. during boarding....More
Long-established safety equipment supplier EAM Worldwide is branching out into aircraft evacuation slides, challenging Zodiac’s Air Cruisers subsidiary, is the sole supplier on the Airbus A320 family....More
Lufthansa head of product management and airport passenger services, Joachim Schneider, is urging cabin suppliers to work more closely to provide greater integration....More
Airbus is demonstrating a mock-up of its wider A320 economy aisle seats at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg in the hope of attracting a launch customer for the seating variant....More
Boeing is bringing the 737 MAX’s entry into service date forward by six months and will equip the aircraft with an all-new technology cockpit with the same displays as those in the Boeing 787, the manufacturer announced Wednesday....More
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. detailed the flight test program for the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), including revealing that some of the flights will be conducted in the US....More
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