** FILE ** In this Feb. 3, 2011, file photo, Boeings' new 787 Dreamliner takes off from Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. While Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners are grounded, the batteries causing airliner’s troubles can still fly. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)
** FILE ** In this Feb. 3, 2011, file photo, Boeings' new 787 Dreamliner takes off from Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. While Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners are grounded, the batteries causing airliner’s troubles can still fly. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)
"[O]ur first order of business, obviously, is getting the 787 back into operation," Boeing's CEO and Chairman Jim McNerney told investors Wednesday after the company's newest model was grounded. "Dreamliner 787 production continues … and we remain confident in the future of the program." (Associated Press)
"[O]ur first order of business, obviously, is getting the 787 back into operation," Boeing's CEO and Chairman Jim McNerney told investors Wednesday after the company's newest model was grounded. "Dreamliner 787 production continues … and we remain confident in the future of the program." (Associated Press)
** FILE ** An All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner sits at Takamatsu Airport in Takamatsu, Japan, after it made an emergency landing on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. The flight to Tokyo from Ube in western Japan landed at the airport after a cockpit message showed battery problems, in the latest trouble for the 787. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
This Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, photo provided by the Japan Transport Safety Board shows the distorted main lithium-ion battery, left, and an undamaged auxiliary battery of the All Nippon Airways' Boeing 787 which made an emergency landing on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 at Takamatsu airport in Takamatsu, western Japan. Japanese and U.S. investigators are conducting a probe of the maker of the lithium ion batteries used in Boeing’s 787 “Dreamliner.” (AP Photo/Japan Transport Safety Board)
This Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, photo provided by the Japan Transport Safety Board shows the distorted main lithium-ion battery, left, and an undamaged auxiliary battery of the All Nippon Airways' Boeing 787 which made an emergency landing on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 at Takamatsu airport in Takamatsu, western Japan. Japanese and U.S. investigators are conducting a probe of the maker of the lithium ion batteries used in Boeing’s 787 “Dreamliner.” (AP Photo/Japan Transport Safety Board)
This Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, photo provided by the Japan Transport Safety Board shows the distorted main lithium-ion battery, left, and an undamaged auxiliary battery of the All Nippon Airways' Boeing 787 which made an emergency landing on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 at Takamatsu airport in Takamatsu, western Japan. Japanese and U.S. investigators are conducting a probe of the maker of the lithium ion batteries used in Boeing’s 787 “Dreamliner.” (AP Photo/Japan Transport Safety Board)
A Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet aircraft is surrounded by emergency vehicles while parked at a Terminal E gate at Logan International Airport in Boston on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, following a fire that started in one of the plane's lithium ion batteries. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
