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Boeing sees 787 battery fixes done by mid-May

Agence France-PresseApril 24, 2013 12:16
Boeing voiced confidence Wednesday that all Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, grounded worldwide for overheated lithium-ion batteries, will have a company fix installed by mid-May. "We have pretty big confidence we can be done with this in a few weeks, by mid-May," Jim McNerney, Boeing chairman, president and chief executive, said in a conference call after the company reported first-quarter earnings. Airlines have begun installing the modifications to the pioneering lithium-ion battery system after the US Federal Aviation Administration approved the Boeing fix last Friday.

Too soon to say if 787 battery issues were design error - Boeing

April 23, 2013 12:15
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Boeing Co <BA.N> executive said on Tuesday it was too early to determine whether problems with the lithium ion batteries on its new 787 Dreamliner that led to the plane's grounding in January stemmed from a design error or some manufacturing problem. Mike Sinnett, Boeing's chief 787 engineer, told an investigative hearing of the National Transportation Safety Board that the batteries had been through thousands of hours of testing before the new airliner began flying, plus additional hours during flight testing.

Boeing says it thought 787 battery short would not lead to fire

April 23, 2013 11:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co <BA.N> said on Tuesday that it did not believe during design and testing that a fire could occur in the lithium-ion battery system that failed on its 787 Dreamliner. Under questioning at an investigative hearing by the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, Mike Sinnett, Boeing's chief 787 engineer, said: "Any form of internal short circuit could lead to venting of that cell and release of electrolyte, but nothing more than that."

U.S. safety board seeks larger lesson in Boeing 787 battery fire

April 23, 2013 10:00
By Alwyn Scott and Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The top U.S. transportation safety agency is looking beyond what caused a Boeing Co <BA.N> Dreamliner battery to fail in January at larger lessons that can be applied to the airplane certification process and new technologies.

FAA approves Boeing's 787 Dreamliner battery fix

Agence France-PresseApril 19, 2013 16:47
The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday approved Boeing's proposed battery fix for its 787 Dreamliner aircraft, a key step toward getting the grounded jetliner back in the skies. Airlines operating the 787 will be given instructions next week on how to implement the fix of the problematic lithium-ion batteries that overheated, prompting the worldwide grounding of the 787 in mid-January, the FAA said. "The changes are designed to address risks at the battery cell level, the battery level and the aircraft level," the aviation regulator said in a statement.

Wider lithium battery use strains technology - experts

April 11, 2013 21:30
By Deepa Seetharaman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Batteries like the one that burned on a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner in January can be made safer, but doing so can cut performance and raise costs, experts told U.S. safety investigators on Thursday. The use of lithium-ion batteries has greatly expanded in the past decade, powering everything from Tesla cars to iPads, and the risk of fire is well-understood, experts said at a forum organized by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.

Boeing CEO confident that 787 battery fix will work

March 28, 2013 11:30
(Reuters) - Boeing Co <BA.N> has high confidence the proposed fix for the lithium-ion batteries on its grounded 787 passenger jet will work, Chief Executive Officer Jim McNerney said on Thursday. The grounding has been a "frustrating experience," McNerney told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce aviation summit. (For event video, click: http://link.reuters.com/juf96t )

Boeing CEO confident that 787 batteries fix will work

March 28, 2013 09:30
(Reuters) - Boeing Co <BA.N> has high confidence that the proposed fix for the lithium-ion batteries on its grounded 787 passenger jet will work, Chief Executive Jim McNerney said on Thursday. The grounding has been a "frustrating experience," McNerney told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce aviation summit. (Reporting by Alwyn Scott; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)

Boeing 787 takes to sky in first flight check

March 25, 2013 14:30
By Alwyn Scott and Andrea Shalal-Esa NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner took to the sky on Monday in a test flight aimed at showing that the plane's new lithium-ion battery system meets regulatory safety standards, a key step in ending a two-month, worldwide grounding of the high-tech jet.

Boeing puts 787 battery to tough tests it once avoided

March 18, 2013 01:00
By Alwyn Scott and Peter Henderson NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - To get its 787 Dreamliner flying again, Boeing Co is testing the plane's volatile battery system to a rigorous standard that the company itself helped develop - but that it never used on the jet.
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