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Japan's ANA to resume Boeing 787 flights on Sunday

Test flight: In this Sunday, April 28, 2013 file photo, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner of the All Nippon Airways prepares to land after a test flight at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo

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Fri, May 24, 2013 Published on May. 24, 2013 Published on 2013-05-24T13:31:54+07:00

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Test flight: In this Sunday, April 28, 2013 file photo, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner of the All Nippon Airways prepares to land after a test flight at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo. (AP/Shizuo Kambayashi, File) Test flight: In this Sunday, April 28, 2013 file photo, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner of the All Nippon Airways prepares to land after a test flight at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo. (AP/Shizuo Kambayashi, File) (AP/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

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span class="caption">Test flight: In this Sunday, April 28, 2013 file photo, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner of the All Nippon Airways prepares to land after a test flight at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo. (AP/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

Japan's All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner," will resume commercial flights of the aircraft on Sunday, just over four months after the jets were grounded due to smoldering batteries.

ANA said in a statement that it will run five commercial 787 flights in May, before regular, scheduled services begin on June 1. The first will be a commercial flight late Sunday from Chitose, on the northern island of Hokkaido, to Tokyo's Haneda Airport.

Smoldering batteries on two 787s, one of them owned by ANA, prompted authorities to ground the planes in January. The failure of Boeing's newest, flashiest and most important plane embarrassed the company and its customers.

ANA said it has modified all 17 of its 787 aircraft and conducted 170 proving flights.

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