Regulators launch probe into Boeing battery manufacture

Posted on 22 Jan 2013

A joint investigation by US and Japanese inspectors into GS Yuasa, the Japanese battery maker for Boeing's grounded 787 Dreamliner aircraft, is underway.

Since a Nippon Airways (ANA) 787 flight was forced to make an emergency landing on January 16, regulators have grounded all Dreamliners in operation. The emergency landing was attributed to a faulty battery which may have overheated and caught fire. Japanese and US regulators are probing the cause of the fault with the battery’s supplier.…

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