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Airbus: "Plan B" for the A-350 XWB airplane batteries

Toulouse, France - Additional studies launched and it will take on board the findings of the ongoing official investigation

"Airbus is confident that the lithium ion (Li-ion) main battery architecture it has been developing with Saft and qualifying for the A-350 XWB aircraft is robust and safe. The A-350 XWB flight test programme will continue as planned with the qualified Li-ion main batteries. However, to date, the root causes of the two recent industry Li-ion main batteries incidents remain unexplained to the best...

fra/pec - 1149853
Rome, Italy, 02/15/2013 17:37
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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