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U.S. air safety agency speeds up Boeing 737 inspections after more problems found in slats
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 29 - 08 - 2007


U.S. government regulators ordered
airlines to speed up inspections of the wing slats on newer
Boeing 737 jetliners after more problems that could lead to
a fire were found in initial inspections this week, accoridng to AP.
In the second emergency airworthiness directive in four
days, the Federal Aviation Administration reduced the time
allowed for inspecting the slat downstop assembly from 24
days to 10.
Both last Saturday's directive and the superseding one
issued late Tuesday were based on findings about the fire
that destroyed a China Airlines 737 in Japan last week.
FAA spokesman Les Dorr said the initial inspections this
week had found two planes in which parts had come off the
slat downstop assembly and were lying loose in the housing,
including one in which the housing wall was damaged.
Last Thursday, investigators in Japan found that a bolt
from a right wing slat had pierced the fuel tank of the
Taiwanese jetliner that caught fire after landing on the
Japanese resort island of Okinawa. All 165 people aboard
evacuated safely seconds before the plane exploded.
A fuel leak through that hole likely caused the fire on
the China Airlines Boeing 737-800, said Kazushige Daiki,
chief investigator at Japan's Aircraft and Railway
Accidents Investigation Commission.
Slats slide out the front edge of the main wings during
takeoff and landing to stabilize the aircraft, along with
flaps that come out of the wings' rear edge. The downstop
limits how far the slats can slide out.
The new directive said owners and operators could do
either the detailed inspection ordered initially or use a
borescope, an imaging device that can get into closed
areas. Dorr said the goal was to ensure all parts were in
place, particularly a washer crucial to holding a nut on
the bolt. If no repairs were needed, airlines could take
the full 24 days to retighten the nut and bolt to
specifications, the order said.
The orders apply to 783 U.S. airplanes but will likely be
imposed by other countries on the entire worldwide fleet of
2,287 newer 737s, Dorr said.
The order covers all 737-600, -700, -800, -900 and -900ER
series planes, the first of which entered service in
January 1998.


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