Is the flying public ready to re-embrace the Boeing 787 Dreamliner? Three months after the plane was grounded, it's set to return to the skies even though the root cause of its battery trouble remains unknown.
In early March, Boeing expressed confidence that it had eliminated all risk of battery fires with a redesigned cell and a casing that safely releases heat and pressure.
"I feel more confident in the performance of the product now because we've addressed many possible things than if we would have only just addressed one thing," Michael Sinnett, vice president and chief project engineer of Boeing's commercial airplane division, said at a news conference in Tokyo as the U.S. company pitched its remedy for the aircraft's troubled lithium-ion battery.