FAA Updates Door Jettison Requirements for Certain Airbus Helicopters
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This rule requires certain Airbus Helicopters AS332 models to receive updated modifications to the cabin lateral sliding plug door release or jettison system. The goal is to make sure the doors can be safely released in an emergency. Operators and maintenance teams must apply the required door-system modification by the FAA’s compliance deadlines. Once the modification is done, it ends the need for the repetitive inspections required under the earlier directives.
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Key Changes
- Replaces earlier FAA airworthiness directives for certain Airbus Helicopters AS332 models
- Requires modification of the cabin lateral sliding plug door release or jettison system
- Ends repetitive inspection requirements once the required modification is completed
Obligations
What this law requires
Modify the release system of each cabin lateral sliding plug door, or alternatively modify the design of the jettison system of each cabin lateral sliding plug door, on affected Airbus Helicopters Model AS332C, AS332C1, AS332L, and AS332L1 helicopters.
Use the FAA-incorporated manufacturer publication approved by the Director of the Federal Register when carrying out the required cabin lateral sliding plug door release or jettison system modification.
Continue complying with applicable repetitive inspection requirements from the earlier airworthiness directives until the required door release-system or jettison-system modification is completed as the terminating action.