Tokyo: Japan's transport minister said today the government is poised to allow Japanese airlines to resume flying grounded Boeing 787s once they complete installation of systems to reduce fire risk in problematic lithium ion batteries.
The approval could come as early as this evening following an expected formal safety order from the US federal regulators, Transport Minister Akihiro Ohta said in a statement on the ministry's website.
The 50 Dreamliner jets in service worldwide were grounded in mid-January after incidents with smoldering batteries occurred aboard two different planes.
26/04/13 Economic Times
