That means all 24 of Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger jets operated by two biggest carries in the country, All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airlines (JAL), have been grounded for safety checks, media reports said.
The two carriers operate around half of the 50 Dreamliners Boeing has delivered so far.
The move comes after one of the jets operated by ANA made an emergency landing in western Japan. Details on what actually happened with the plane were not known but sources said the jet landed after a cockpit message showed battery problems.
The plane was flying from Ube to Tokyo but landed at the Takamatsu airport, where passengers were asked to use emergency slides to exit.
The airport was temporarily closed.
The incident is the latest in the series of snags in Dreamliners which luckily have caused no injuries to any of the passengers so far.
ANA confirmed that instruments aboard the flight indicated a battery error. The battery, the carrier said, was the same lithium-ion type that was involved in a fire on another Dreamliner at a US airport last week.
"During the flight, (there was) an error message saying 'battery problem'," said an ANA spokesman. "We are still investigating what exactly happened."
The carrier said its planes could be back in the air once checks were completed which would be as soon as Thursday.
The Dreamliner aircraft, which many see as the future of the commercial aviation, has been hit by half a dozen incidents in the past week, including two fuel leaks, a battery fire, a wiring problem, a brake computer fault and a cracked cockpit window.
Before that there had been engine failures during testing and in one case a Dreamliner cargo plane was forced to cancel takeoff when one of its General Electric turbines lost power.
But the incidents so far have not resulted in any of the orders for the planes being cancelled.
The Dreamliner is a twin-aisle aircraft that can seat 210 to 290 passengers. It is the first large commercial jet with more than half its structure made of carbon fibers and epoxy rather than aluminum sheets.
Asian and European airlines Wednesday said they stood by their orders.
Japanese, American and Indian aviation regulators have launched probes.
British Airways has ordered 24 Dreamliners and in a statement said it was "committed to taking delivery of the aircraft".
Source: http://www.southkoreanews.net/index.php/sid/211980861/scat/3a8a80d6f705f8cc
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