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 The two-engine jetliner en route to San Francisco from Tokyo
diverted to Honolulu, landing at 1343 local time Saturday with 160
passengers on board, a spokesman for JAL said. No one was injured in
the incident.
"We are investigating the cause of the drop in oil pressure," the
spokesman said. The Dreamliner is still parked in Hawaii, he added.
The jet is the same one on which a battery melted and emitted smoke
at Boston's Logan airport in January last year. A subsequent battery
overheating on a 787 owned by ANA Holdings several days later
prompted regulators to ground the global fleet of carbon composite
787s for more than three months.
Investigators in Japan are also probing a battery that overheated on
a JAL Dreamliner parked at Tokyo's Narita airport in January this
year.
Authorities have yet to discover the root cause of the any of those
meltdowns. They allowed Boeing to return the 787 to operation after
it redesigned the battery with insulation, a vent to eject any hot
gases out of the aircraft, and encased it in a steel box to contain
any fire.
(Reporting by Tim Kelly; editing by Jeremy Laurence)
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