Airlines Ground 787 Dreamliner: Should Passengers Be Worried?

Following a string of high-profile technical glitches, Japan’s two major airlines, All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airlines (JAL), have grounded their fleets of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the world’s newest and widely regarded as the most technologically advanced passenger airplane. The most recent incident happened today when an ANA Dreamliner made an emergency landing in western Japan. The airline said in a statement “the aircraft’s instruments registered a problem related to a battery and crew also detected an unusual smell in the cabin and the cockpit.” News accounts tell of smoke filling the plane and passengers descending from emergency chutes after the plane landed at Takamatsu Airport. The Japan Times newspaper reports several passengers sustaining back pain and minor injuries such as abrasions after using the chutes.

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