. CHENNAI: Air India on Friday started test-flight of its Boeing 787 Dreamliner between Delhi and Amritsar. The airline expects to put all its six Dreamliner aircraft into service by end of this month.The initial test-flights began after director general of civil aviation cleared new battery packs fitted on the aircraft.
"Test-flights will continue for the next few weeks and it will also help the crew to gain mandatory requalification needed to operate the machines. The pilots who flew the plane were satisfied with the performance of the aircraft," said an Air India official.Air India's engineers are working closely with Boeing's team to change batteries of the rest of the B787 aircraft. The airline has six Dreamliners. The second aircraft is also expected to be ready by May 12.After Boeing's team completed improvement of battery, the Dreamliner aircraft took off from Mumbai for the first time and was flown to Delhi today. It had a stop over at Ahmedabad where pilots practised back-track and other manoeuvres before taking off as part of their training.Civil aviation secretary K N Shrivastava and Air India's chairman and managing director Rohit Nanadan visited the Delhi Airport to see the first B787, which had been modified with the new battery system. They looked at the modifications and risk mitigations that were carried out.The Boeing 787 aircraft were grounded earlier in January 2013 after certain critical battery problems were detected in the fleet operated by other airlines. Air India's Chennai-Delhi service using a Dreamliner aircraft was popular among passengers.
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"Test-flights will continue for the next few weeks and it will also help the crew to gain mandatory requalification needed to operate the machines. The pilots who flew the plane were satisfied with the performance of the aircraft," said an Air India official.Air India's engineers are working closely with Boeing's team to change batteries of the rest of the B787 aircraft. The airline has six Dreamliners. The second aircraft is also expected to be ready by May 12.After Boeing's team completed improvement of battery, the Dreamliner aircraft took off from Mumbai for the first time and was flown to Delhi today. It had a stop over at Ahmedabad where pilots practised back-track and other manoeuvres before taking off as part of their training.Civil aviation secretary K N Shrivastava and Air India's chairman and managing director Rohit Nanadan visited the Delhi Airport to see the first B787, which had been modified with the new battery system. They looked at the modifications and risk mitigations that were carried out.The Boeing 787 aircraft were grounded earlier in January 2013 after certain critical battery problems were detected in the fleet operated by other airlines. Air India's Chennai-Delhi service using a Dreamliner aircraft was popular among passengers.
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