Washington, Feb 21 (ANI): Boeing will launch a formal plan to the US aviation authorities to get its grounded Dreamliner back into service.
The new plan is expected to present fixes aimed at reducing fire hazards from the jetliner's batteries, according to people familiar with the details.
According to the Wall street Journal, sources revealed that senior Boeing executives are scheduled to meet with top officials from the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington to discuss the proposed 10-point package, emphasizing changes to the guts of the plane's lithium-ion batteries along with a new protective fireproof container.
The move reflects the Chicago plane maker's attempt to get the aircraft safely back into the air even though investigators in the U.S. and Japan so far have failed to trace the root cause of battery meltdowns on a pair of 787s that prompted a world-wide grounding of the jets in mid-January.
Since then, Boeing has been working to come up with various interim and longer-term battery modification to try to persuade the FAA to act quickly.
Now, according to people familiar with the issue, Boeing feels confident it can compress the time to make all the changes into a matter of weeks.
The company already has started producing some hardware, while several airline officials have predicted 787s could be flying as soon as April, the paper said. (ANI)
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