Boeing\u00a0may carry out a certification test flight of its grounded 787 Dreamliner with a revamped battery system on Friday, a key step toward returning the state-of-the-art aircraft to flight, a U.S. government official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The official, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said the certification test could be carried out on Friday if all remaining ground-based tests were completed on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“They’re not quite there yet,” said the official, adding that it might not be clear until early Friday if the certification flight could take place.<\/p>\n
“As a matter of long-standing policy Boeing does not provide advance notice of flight test activities until we have filed flight test plans,” Boeing spokesman Marc Birtel told Reuters when asked about a possible test flight on Friday.<\/p>\n
All 50 787s in service worldwide were grounded in January after problems with the airplane’s lithium-ion batteries on two separate aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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