It desperately needs to upgrade its ageing fleet and raise its safety standards so it can expand onto European and US routes.
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"Deterring irresponsible use of alcohol is essential to the readiness of our fleet and ensuring the health and safety of our service members and units, " Adm.
Tokyo (CNN) -- A Boeing 787 Dreamliner took off Sunday from a Tokyo airport, the first such flight in Japan since safety issues grounded the Dreamliner fleet, officials told CNN.
Tokyo (CNN) -- A Boeing 787 Dreamliner took off Sunday from a Tokyo airport, the first such flight in Japan since safety issues grounded the Dreamliner fleet, airline officials told CNN.
Last month, safety regulators grounded the entire fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners after a battery on a plane operated by Japan Airlines caught fire, while a battery malfunction forced an emergency landing of a flight operated by All Nippon Airways.
Mr Ainsworth said the MoD had already implemented measures to improve safety and airworthiness of the Nimrod fleet, insisting the department had not been "idle" while Mr Haddon-Cave's review was being carried out.
The aircraft was just six months old and part of a new fleet bought by the airline, which has a good safety record.
But incidents relating to battery malfunction earlier this year raised some concerns over its safety and led to the grounding of the fleet.
The safety board has called since 2006 for the transit authority to modernize its fleet of transit cars.
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The Fukushima Daiichi plant has a black mark on its record from earlier in the last decade, when a scandal involving falsified safety records led to parent company Tepco briefly shutting down its entire nuclear fleet in Japan.
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