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ANA cancels more Dreamliner flights

TOKYO - All Nippon Airways Co, which has the biggest fleet of Boeing Co’s troubled Dreamliner jets, on Saturday cancelled hundreds of flights until February 18, signalling a quick fix to the plane’s safety problems was unlikely.

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Burnt circuit boards snag Boeing 787 probe

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Burnt circuit boards snag Boeing 787 probe

TOKYO - A device seen as key to explaining why a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner jet made an emergency landing in Japan last week is burnt and unlikely to provide safety inspectors with data they need, said a person with knowledge of the ongoing investigation.

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Seattle bleeds Boeing blue as 787 grounding dismays

SEATTLE — Scratch people in Seattle, the line goes, and they bleed Boeing blue, the corporate colour of the world’s largest planemaker. Sons have followed fathers to the Puget Sound plants that built the 707, the first commercially successful jetliner, and the 747, the first wide-body. Not for nothing does Seattle call itself the Jet City.

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