CHICAGO Thick smoke from Canadian wildfires coated Chicago and the surrounding areas with haze as weather officials issued an air quality alert for parts of the Great Lakes, Lower Mississippi and Ohio valleys Tuesday morning. According to the monitoring site IQAir, Chicago had the worst air quality out of 95 cities worldwide Tuesday. As of 11 a.m., the air quality index had risen to a level .
financially this has to be a blow to boeing and the dreamliner s reputation. it happened in wednesday morning in japan on all nippon airways. the pilot started smelling smoke in the cockpit. the pilot made emergency landing there were minor injuries as passengers evacuated the plane down the emergency chute. officials at the airport where the plane landed said there was no fire, which is important but they confirmed smelling smoke. japan airlines grounded all 24 of their 787 dreamliners in service. united airlines is the only american carrier to fly the 787. there is no word what they will do at this point. but this appears to be another battery issue but not the same one that happened last week at boston s logan airport. that was the auxiliary battery near the back of the plane on the under bell i l the plane s other lithium-ion batteries sit right below and slightly behind the cockpit, bill.