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The Federal Aviation Administration gave formal approval on Thursday for a new lithium-ion battery system for Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner, ending a three-month ban and clearing airlines to fly the plane with passengers again.

Japan's Transport Ministry says a probe into the overheating of a lithium ion battery in an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 found it was improperly wired.

The use of lithium ion batteries to power aircraft systems isn't necessarily unsafe despite a battery fire in one Boeing 787 Dreamliner and smoke in another, but manufacturers need to build in reliable safeguards, the nation's top aviation safety investigator said Wednesday....

An examination of the undamaged battery in the parked Boston plane found nothing out of the ordinary, the National Transportation Safety Board said. The second battery was the same design as the one that caught fire.