Japan's All Nippon Airways has resumed commercial flights
of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner for the first time since the planes were grounded
over safety fears.
The first flight landed at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sunday evening, local time, after a short flight from Sapporo in northern Japan.
Other airlines have already resumed 787 flights, but ANA is Boeing's biggest Dreamliner customer, with 17 planes.
An overheating battery on an ANA flight led 787s being grounded in January.
It followed a separate battery-related emergency on a Japan Airlines flight.
The planes have since been modified with new battery systems and have been given approval to fly again by the US Federal Aviation Authority.
Sunday's Dreamliner flight was the first of five scheduled by ANA in May, before the airline restarts a full commercial schedule on 1 June.
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