| Dreamliner probe widens after excess battery voltage ruled out Jan 21st 2013, 01:58  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. safety investigators on Sunday ruled out excess voltage as the cause of a battery fire this month on a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner jet operated by Japan Airlines Co (JAL) and said they were expanding the probe to look at the battery's charger and the jet's auxiliary power unit. Last week, governments across the world grounded the Dreamliner while Boeing halted deliveries after a problem with a lithium-ion battery on a second 787 plane, flown by All Nippon Airways Co (ANA), forced the aircraft to make an emergency landing in western Japan. ...
|  | Japan transport ministry says to investigate Japan battery maker Jan 21st 2013, 01:52 TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's transport ministry will open an investigation into a Japanese battery maker involved in Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner, jointly with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, a ministry official said on Monday. Boeing's Dreamliner, plagued by a string of mishaps in recent days, has been grounded worldwide after a battery fire in Boston and an emergency landing in western Japan. Japan is the biggest market so far for the Dreamliner, with Japan Airlines Co and All Nippon Airways Co flying 24 of the 50 passenger jets delivered to date. The official did not name the company. ... | | 787 probe puts spotlight on Arizona battery firm Jan 21st 2013, 00:03 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tucson, Arizona-based Securaplane Technologies Inc, which makes a charger for batteries used on the Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner, on Sunday said it would support an investigation into battery issues that have grounded the new planes. Securaplane, a unit of Britain's Meggitt Plc, first began working on the charger in 2004, but suffered millions of dollars of damages in November 2006 after a lithium-ion battery used in testing exploded and sparked a fire that burned an administrative building to the ground. The U.S. ... | | In Washington, musician Moby drives a different kind of inaugural party Jan 20th 2013, 23:46  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All across Washington this weekend, the wealthy, the politically connected and the curious are putting on tuxedos and ball gowns and crowding into fancy galas to celebrate President Barack Obama's second inauguration. This was not one of those parties. At an inaugural celebration at Washington's U Street Music Hall late Saturday and early Sunday, a man in a black blazer accompanied a young woman who was in a midriff-baring, sequin-covered bra. Another couple danced while wearing matching track suits. ...
| | Investigators to travel to Pratt facility in Phoenix: NTSB Jan 20th 2013, 22:57 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials investigating a battery fire on a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner will travel to Phoenix, Arizona, for equipment tests at a facility run by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp, a spokesman for the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday. NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said investigators would carry out functional testing and memory downloads of the auxiliary power unit, or APU, built by Pratt & Whitney Power, known as Hamilton Sundstrand until United Technologies took over Goodrich last year. ... | | Maker of 787 battery charger says will support U.S. investigation Jan 20th 2013, 22:57 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Securaplane Technologies Inc, a unit of Britain's Meggitt Plc, on Sunday confirmed that it makes the charger for lithium-ion batteries used on Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner, and said it fully support U.S. investigations into battery issues that grounded the new planes last week. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board on Sunday ruled out excess voltage as the cause of a battery fire on the 787 at the Boston airport this month. ... | | Journalist Barbara Walters hospitalized after fall at Washington party Jan 20th 2013, 22:25  (Reuters) - Veteran journalist Barbara Walters was admitted to a Washington. D.C., hospital over the weekend after she fell and cut her head at the British ambassador's residence, a spokesman for the ABC television network said on Sunday. Jeffrey Schneider, a senior vice president with ABC News, said Walters fell on the stairs on Saturday evening while attending an event. "Out of an abundance of caution," Walters, 83, went to the hospital, where she remained for observation on Sunday, Schneider said. ...
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