Boeing battery plant passes probe
Japanese team moving on to maker of monitoring unit
Posted: January 29, 2013 at 3:11 a.m.
Officials inspect an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 on Jan. 18. The plane made an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport in western Japan after a lithium-ion battery in the plane caught fire.
Japanese investigators studying the batteries that have grounded Boeing’s 787 fleet wrapped up an onsite inspection at the batteries’ manufacturer Monday and said they would continue their inquiry at a maker of a device that monitors the batteries.
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