Japan's ANA cancels 335 B-787 flights

Published: 21 Jan 2013 at 13.45
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Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) said on Monday the worldwide grounding of Boeing's Dreamliner forced it to cancel 335 flights up to next Sunday, affecting nearly 48,000 passengers.

This file photo shows an All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boeing 787 Dreamliner arriving at Tokyo's Haneda airport after a test flight on July 3, 2011. ANA said on Monday the worldwide grounding of Boeing's Dreamliner forced it to cancel 335 flights up to next Sunday, affecting nearly 48,000 passengers.

ANA said cancellations on domestic routes from January 16, the day that one of its Boeing 787 Dreamliners made an emergency landing, sparking a global alert, to January 27 amount to 292 flights for 44,074 passengers.

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Discussion 3 : 21 Jan 2013 at 16.293
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Sorry, I meant to say "how safe" instead of "how save" in the comment #2.
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Khun Robins #1, do you know how save is Li-ion batteries in mobile phones and laptop computers? Nissan's new electric car, the Leaf, is packed with the same type of potentially volatile battery also. I wonder how come Boeing engineers did not detect the problem during flight testing prior to the certification?
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It's not exactly like Boeing and everyone else in the industry did not already know that lithium batteries are inherently dangerous. In the last few years, lithium batteries just being transported as freight have been implicated in fires on two 747 cargo planes, both of which resulted in fatal crashes. One plane belonged to UPS and the other to Asiana Airline Cargo.
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