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The 787 was traveling from Ube to Tokyo when crew members noticed an alarm sign on a battery, a spokeswoman for All Nippon said. The aircraft then made an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport.
Japanese broadcaster NHK reported smoke was seen coming from the cockpit, but All Nippon could not confirm the report. Images shot from the tarmac showed the aircraft was surrounded by emergency vehicles and the plane's evacuation slides had been deployed.
Following the incident, company officials from All Nippon said the airline was grounding its fleet of 17 Dreamliners.
Last week, U.S. and company officials announced a probe of the design, manufacture and assembly of the 787 Dreamliner in the wake of a series of problems that have dogged the jet in recent days. The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday it was "gathering information" about the emergency landing.
The plane is widely seen as key to Boeing's future, using lightweight composite materials rather than aluminum to significantly improve its fuel efficiency.
A representative from Boeing said the company was aware of Wednesday's incident.
"All I can say at this point is we are aware of the event and working with the customer," said Lori Gunter, a spokeswoman for Boeing.
Boeing (BA, Fortune 500) shares were down almost 2% in after-hours trading. Shares of All Nippon trading in Tokyo were down more than 1.0%.
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The latest incident builds on a series of problems that began last week when a maintenance worker discovered an electrical fire aboard an empty Japan Airlines 787 scheduled for departure from Logan International Airport in Boston. Then a Japan Airlines flight bound for Tokyo aborted takeoff from Boston after a pilot on another airplane spotted the 787 leaking fuel. In another incident, an All Nippon Dreamliner flight was canceled after the crew received an error message related to the plane's braking system.
To close out the week, oil was discovered leaking from a generator of an engine of an All Nippon Airways Dreamliner at an airport in southern Japan, and a crack appeared in a cockpit window of another All Nippon plane en route from Tokyo to a city in western Japan.
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Boeing has delivered 50 of the aircraft. It has more than 800 unfilled orders from airlines around the globe that will take years to fill. In addition to the Dreamliner assembly line at its Seattle-area factory, it built a new 1,000-worker factory in South Carolina to handle the demand. It hopes to double production of the plane this year to about 10 a month.
All Nippon has taken delivery of more Dreamliners than any other airline, with 17 in service, according to aviation consultancy Ascend Advisory. Japan Airlines has seven Dreamliners in use, while United Airlines (UAL, Fortune 500) and Air India have six each.
The first Dreamliner was put into service by All Nippon in October 2011. But that flight was more than three years behind the aircraft maker's original delivery schedule.
- CNN's Yoko Wakatsuki and Pamela Boykoff contributed to this report.
First Published: January 15, 2013: 9:17 PM ET
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