BBC News, 10
October 2013
Aerospace
and Defence
The Dreamliner has been hit by a spate of technical and safety issues in recent months |
On one
plane one of the two anti-ice systems, which prevent ice building-up around the
engine, failed.
Meanwhile,
an electric glitch rendered six toilets unusable on another flight.
These are
the latest technical issues to hit the Dreamliner, which saw the entire fleet
being grounded earlier this year following battery problems.
The
anti-icing system failed on a Tokyo-bound flight that took off from San Diego.
A
spokesperson for JAL told the BBC that a similar issue had forced a
Tokyo-to-Singapore flight to be turned back in June this year.
Meanwhile,
an electrical system failure connected to the lavatories affected a flight from
Moscow to Tokyo.
The failure
resulted in six of the seven toilets on the plane not being able to flush.
The airline
said that it was looking into the problems.
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