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| After meeting with Boeing executives, top federal aviation
| officials said on Friday that they would not approve any
| fix to the battery problems on the 787 jetliner until they
| were certain that the batteries would not fail again.
| ...
| "The safety of the flying public is our top priority and
| we won't allow the 787 to return to commercial service
| until we're confident that any proposed solution has
| addressed the battery failure risks," Laura J. Brown, a
| spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said
| in a statement.
| ...
| The meeting, however, was unlikely to bring about a quick
| lifting of the 787s' grounding order. Boeing is asking the
| F.A.A. to approve the fixes even though safety
| investigators have not figured out precisely what caused
| the battery on one plane to ignite and the battery on
| another to start smoking last month.
| ...
| In that sense, the meeting on Friday was also aimed at
| expanding the company's emphasis from engineering work to
| the political arena.
| ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/23/business/faa-sets-terms-for-boeings-battery-fixes-on-787.html

--bks