Japan grounds Dreamliner after emergency landing

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Japan grounds Dreamliner after emergency landing

All Nippon Airways' (ANA) passenger planes are parked at Tokyo's Haneda airport on January 16, 2013 after an ANA Dreamliner passenger plane made an emergency landing in western Japan after smoke was reportedly seen inside the cockpit. Japan's two biggest airlines on January 16 grounded all their Dreamliners in the most serious blow yet to Boeing's troubled next-generation model after an ANA flight was forced into an emergency landing. (AFP/Getty Images)

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Posted by: Abdul hafeez Sheikh Wednesday, 30 January 2013 10:29 AM[UAE] - Pakistan Islamabad

The cost of Poor quality Battery is very high . This teaches a lesson that every part in Air plan has operational cost and while manufacturing the parts , the loss due to operations be given top priority rather than using typical quality control systems . The battery may have not been given such consideration which resulted in such problem for Boeing

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