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Norwegian Air Shuttle AS (NAS) is taking one of its Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes out of service for repairs and will lease an Airbus A340 to ensure all scheduled fights keep running between Sweden and the U.S. and Thailand. The Dreamliner, Norwegian Air's second, will be taken "out of operation for maintenance work and testing so it can give us the reliability we expect," Lasse Sandaker-Nielsen, a spokesman for Norwegian Air, said by telephone today. The plane is stranded in Bangkok after a hydraulic pump broke and will be returned to Stockholm later today or tomorrow.

Norwegian Air is grappling with technical glitches on the Dreamliner, from cockpit oxygen supply issues that delayed a flight to New York from Oslo on Sept. 22, to brake difficulties that affected the second 787 in Sweden this month. The global fleet of Dreamliners was grounded earlier this year after some batteries on planes operated by Japanese carriers caught fire. "Boeing is dispatching a repair team and the necessary parts via chartered aircraft from the main maintenance base in Stockholm for Norwegian's 787s," Doug Alder, a company spokesman, said in an e-mailed statement. The airliner is expected be out of service for "a matter of days," the statement said. In consultation with the airline, Boeing said a number of enhancements will be made to improve the airplane's in-service reliability, following its return to Stockholm.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-28/norwegian-air-grounds-dreamliner-for-reliability-testing-1-.html