Boeing Co. isn’t planning on scaling back production of its troubled 787 Dreamliner or backing away from the lithium-ion battery that led U.S. regulators and others around the globe to ground the fleet of planes and launch investigations of the battery earlier this month.
“Nothing we have learned yet has told us that we have made the wrong choice on the battery technology,” Boeing Chairman and Chief Executive Office Jim McNerney said as the Chicago-based aerospace giant released its fourth-quarter earnings and gave a 2013 profit forecast that beat Wall Street expectations.
Note EU-Digest: All Nippon Airways said it replaced batteries 10 times over the past few months, while Japan Airlines said it did so in a "few cases" over the past few months.
Boeing said that it was carrying out an investigation to find out what caused the battery malfunctions."Nothing that we have learned has told us that we have made the wrong choice on the battery technology," said Mr McNerney, chief executive of Boeing.
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