Japan Airlines Co. pulled a Boeing 787 from its scheduled flight Sunday night and replaced it with a 767 after it detected a faulty sensor in one of the recently replaced lithium-ion batteries.
The fault which affected the Tokyo-Beijing flight on Sunday was caused by tape that had been mistakenly left over the pressure sensor when Boeing engineers installed the new batteries, Japan Airlines said in a press release. No fault occurred in the battery, the airline said.
The incident, although minor, comes just after Japan Airlines and its local rival ANA, which together operate half of the world's 787s, returned the jet to service and may hamper efforts by them to allay travelers' concerns.
The Boeing Co. jet is one of 50 Dreamliners that were grounded for more than three months after batteries, one on a parked Japan Airlines 787 in Boston and another aboard an ANA Holdings plane during flight in Japan, overheated.
Read more: Boeing 787 battery: Dreamliner flight halted in Japan because of battery problem - chicagotribune.com
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