ETOPS: Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards
Boeing's 787 Dreamliner will be allowed to fly as far as 5½ hours from an
airport, instead of the previous three hours, giving airlines more options for
long routes across the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans and the two
poles.
By Alan Levin
Boeing's 787 Dreamliner will be allowed to fly farther from the nearest
airport on some long overwater trips after U.S. regulators concluded that the
once-troubled plane has proved its reliability.
The action is a vote of confidence for the world's first jetliner built
chiefly of composite plastics, a plane that was grounded last year to fix
battery meltdowns on two Japanese airlines and whose delays during development
meant that its 2011 debut ran more than three years late.
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