The
National Transportation Safety Board is sending an agency
representative to London's Heathrow airport to assist in
investigating a fire aboard an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787
Dreamliner. The incident closed the airport for a period of time on
Friday.
“The
runways are now fully re-opened, following an earlier internal fire
on-board an aircraft,” airport officials reported on Heathrow's
website. “All arrivals and departures were earlier temporarily
suspended while airport fire crews attended to the incident. Flights
are now operating, but will be subject to delay. The Metropolitan
Police Service have advised that there were no passengers on board
and no reported injuries.”
The
worldwide fleet of 787s was grounded in January due to a series of
issues with batteries used aboard the passenger jet. United Airlines
put their 787s back into service on May 20 on routes from Houston to
other domestic hubs. United then added international 787 flying on
the Denver-Tokyo route June 10.
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