Japanese airlines ground Dreamliners
By Agencies in Tokyo | China Daily | Updated: 2013-01-17 08:15
A All Nippon Airways' Boeing 787 dreamliner is pulled by a towing tractor at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Wednesday after a ANA Dreamliner made an emergency landing in western Japan after smoke was reportedly seen inside the cockpit. Yoshikazu Tsuno / Agence France-Presse |
Japan's two leading airlines grounded their fleets of Boeing 787s on Wednesday after one of the Dreamliner passenger jets made an emergency landing, the latest in a series of incidents to heighten safety concerns over a plane many see as the future of commercial aviation.
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