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Old 19th Apr 2013, 00:34
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Ethiopian Airlines has loaded 787 revenue flights into their system resuming on 25 April. All Things 787 reports that a Boeing team is in Addis Ababa installing the new battery containment system on their 787 fleet.

It is rumored this is the date that the FAA will lift the AD grounding on the 787, with the assumption that other regulatory bodies would immediately follow suit as they did with the original grounding AD.

All Things 787 also report that the FAA has lifted the ban on Boeing and Customer test flights for the 787 and indeed two Boeing test flights were in the air today out of Everett - one of them testing the installation of the containment vessel on an ANA airframe.
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