 Image caption An area in front of the tail area on the fuselage appeared to be scorched 
 
 Flights have resumed at London's Heathrow Airport after a fire on a parked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet. It said all passengers had disembarked from the plane and engineers are inspecting the aircraft. Fifty Dreamliners worldwide were grounded in January after malfunctions with the plane's lithium-ion batteries. The planes resumed flying in May after Boeing made redesigns to the battery system that were approved by global aviation regulators. Ethiopian Airlines was the first airline to resume using the 787, with a flight on April 27 from Ethiopia's capital of Addis Ababa to Nairobi, Kenya, after the battery incidents. Fire-retardant foam was sprayed at the airliner, and an area on top of the fuselage in front of the tail appeared to be scorched. Heathrow said there were no passengers aboard the Ethiopian Airlines plane, which was parked at a remote stand of the airport, and runways reopened after about an hour. Television images showed nearly a dozen fire trucks on the scene at Heathrow and firefighters standing around the Ethiopian Airlines plane, which was parked on a remote stand. Arrivals and departures were temporarily suspended while airport fire crews attended to this incident. Meanwhile, Thomson Airways said one of its Dreamliners travelling to Florida returned to Manchester Airport as a precautionary measure, not connected to the Heathrow fire. Thomson, which became the first British carrier to operate the aircraft earlier this week, and is taking delivery of eight of the planes, said the plane had "experienced a technical issue". "All parties in the industry need a full and transparent explanation as to what has been identified as the root causes in this series of events." The incident comes as unwelcome news for Chicago-based Boeing Co., whose Dreamliners were cleared to fly again in April after a four-month grounding amid concerns about overheating lithium-ion batteries. On 7 January, a battery overheated and started a fire on a Japan Airlines 787 at Boston's Logan International Airport. Nine days later, an All Nippon Airways 787 had to make an emergency landing in Japan after a battery started to give off smoke. Boeing shares fell $7.20, or 6.7 percent, to $99.68, around midday in New York. Boeing spokesman Marc Birtel said in an email to The Associated Press that the company has personnel at looking into the event at Heathrow. Boeing spokesman Marc Birtel said in an email that the company had personnel on the ground at Heathrow and "is working to fully understand and address" the situation.
– Looks like the Boeing 787's fire issues aren't entirely behind it. A parked Dreamliner, owned by Ethiopian Airlines, caught fire today at Heathrow airport, prompting a suspension of all arrivals and departures to the London airport, the BBC reports. No passengers were aboard, no injuries have been reported, and the airport has since reopened. But the incident is likely to raise more doubts about the benighted Dreamliner—and sure enough, Boeing's stock plunged on the news, the AP reports. And as if that wasn't enough bad news for the plane maker, later another 787 flying from Manchester to the US had to turn around after encountering an unspecified mechanical failure. All 126 passengers aboard have now disembarked safely. The plane's operator, Thompson Airways, describes the emergency landing as a "precautionary measure."