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Archive Home > 2013 > February > 07 > Batteries used on Dreamliners not necessarily unsafe, NTSB says

Batteries used on Dreamliners not necessarily unsafe, NTSB says

By Joan Lowy / The Bulletin
February 7, 2013

WASHINGTON — The use of lithium ion batteries to power aircraft systems isn’t necessarily unsafe despite a battery fire in one Boeing 787 Dreamliner and smoke in another, but manufacturers need to build in reliable safeguards, the nation’s top aviation safety....

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