There was a fresh crisis yesterday, after All Nippon Airways (ANA) joined its fellow Japanese airline Japan Airline in grounding its fleet of Dreamliners so it could carry out safety checks.
It was a precautionary move from ANA, after one of its jets was forced into an emergency landing and evacuation outside Tokyo on Wednesday, following a battery fault warning, smoke in the cockpit, and the smell of smoke in the cabin.
It was the second battery-related problem to emerge this month, after Japan Airlines reported one of its Dreamliner’s batteries caught fire in Boston last week.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Surreptitious Evil // Jan 17, 2013 at 10:06 am
Wasn’t it Sony produced batteries that had the problem (for Sony themselves, fairly spectacularly, and Dell and to a lesser extent for Apple because of the aluminium cladding they used.)
2 PaulB // Jan 17, 2013 at 11:30 am
Lithium-ion batteries are vulnerable to thermal runaway, whoever makes them.
Leave a Comment