{{Boeing Co completed what it called an uneventful flight on Saturday of a test 787 Dreamliner, its first since the airplanes were grounded more than three weeks ago after a series of battery-related problems.}}<\/p>\n
The test flight to gather detailed information on the airplane’s lithium-ion batteries lasted two hours and 19 minutes, taking off from and returning to Boeing Field in Seattle, Boeing said.<\/p>\n
“The crew reports that the flight was uneventful,” Boeing said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The 50 Dreamliners in commercial service were grounded worldwide on January 16 after a series of battery-related incidents including a fire on board a parked 787 at Boston’s Logan International Airport and an in-flight problem on another airplane in Japan.<\/p>\n
The groundings have cost airlines tens of millions of dollars, with no solution yet in sight.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday it would allow 787 test flights, under more stringent rules, to monitor the batteries in flight.<\/p>\n
Boeing said the information gathered during the flight was part of the investigations into the battery events that occurred in January and that additional details could not be shared.<\/p>\n
The airplane is Boeing’s fifth 787 flight test airplane, marked as ZA005, and the only member of the test fleet in service. The flight had a crew of 13, including pilots and testing personnel, Boeing said.<\/p>\n
Boeing said no flights of the airplane were planned on Sunday, but it planned to resume flights early in the coming week. Boeing does not provide advance flight schedules.<\/p>\n
The test flight departed Boeing Field at 12:32 p.m. Pacific time (3:32 p.m. ET\/2032 GMT) and landed at 2:51 p.m. (5:51 p.m. ET\/2251 GMT), the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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