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Airlines ground Dreamliners after 'serious' safety incident
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Dan Springer reports from Seattle
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- Date Jan 16, 2013
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New troubles for Boeing's dreamliner to airlines grounding all of their 780 sevens in Japan.
After one of the jets was forced to make an emergency landing today.
Dan Springer is in Seattle with the details on what happened there's -- none of these planes have crashed no serious injuries.
But still -- a big problem for Boeing now.
Well that's right just for more perspective John rate now worldwide there are 6780 sevens flying and four of them either left the US or come into the US is not a worldwide panic but this latest incident.
Happen and western Japan during a flight on -- upon Airways a warning light came on and then the pilot smelled some smoke.
That prompted emergency landing at the top Hamas through airport where the plane was checked out.
Officials say there was no fire but they did confirm the smell of smoke apparently coming from a lithium ion battery.
That's it's just be loan behind the cockpit so it looks like another electrical problem for a 787.
But not the same battery that caught fire after -- landing in Boston the passengers and crew all evacuated down the -- Couple minor injuries -- reported.
The chairman of and they apologized to its customers and then ordered all seventeen of the dreamliner to be taken out of service for a safety inspection.
Japan airlines followed suit with its seven dream miners John.
While these incidents over the past couple weeks are they part of the normal process of working the bugs -- the kinks out of a new airplane.
Yeah you know every new plane has what they called birthing issues and some analysts say that's.
Exactly what's happening right now with polling.
The 77 does rely on batteries producing more power than any other -- -- there but it's not the only one using a lithium ion battery for back up power.
Airbus does the same thing when -- 315380.
Jumbo jets.
United is the only American airline that currently -- 780 sevens but the recent issue did not stop American Airlines from buying 42 dreamliner is just this week.
The current problems could force -- into some design assembly changes which could end up cost a lot of money.
-- but for perspective it's important point out that nobody has been seriously hurt or killed -- -- 787.
And in fact quite twelve was the safest year ever in the aviation industry worldwide -- have not there's not an accident in the United States.
In more than three years so it's the safest mode of getting around.
More than 90000 flight today and get nobody hurt or killed us and -- -- and very rigorous testing and those air frames go through before anybody lets them fly.
Dan Springer after -- Seattle thank you.
