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An alert indicator comes on: Japan Airlines' Dreamliner aircraft reverses course and returns to Boston

Boston, USA - "Just a precautionary measure", a company spokesperson declares

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner bound for Tokyo-Narita was forced to reverse its course and return to its departure airport, Boston's "Logan", because a mechanical indicator alert came on in the cockpit. Flight 007 of Japan Airlines had took off from the US' airport at about 1:00 pm local time (5:00 pm GMT/UTC) and landed again at 6:30 pm "As a standard precautionary measure" be3cause an indicator light...

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Rome, Italy, 07/19/2013 11:21
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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