A-00-103

NTSB Safety Recommendation — Aviation

Recommendation text

TO THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION: Require manufacturers of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 23 and part 25 airplanes and Part 121 operators to revise their hard landing inspection and reporting criteria to account for all factors that can contribute to structural damage; instruct principal maintenance and operations inspectors assigned to Part 121 operators to ensure that these changes have been made to operator maintenance manuals and flight operations quality assurance exceedence monitoring programs.

In plain language (FlightFinder summary)

The Federal Aviation Administration is asked to require manufacturers of Part 23 and Part 25 airplanes and Part 121 operators to update their hard landing inspection and reporting criteria to consider all factors that could cause structural damage. Additionally, the FAA must instruct principal maintenance and operations inspectors assigned to Part 121 operators to verify that these revisions have been incorporated into operator maintenance manuals and flight operations quality assurance exceedence monitoring programs.

This plain-language summary is written by FlightFinder to explain the recommendation above. It is not the official wording — the verbatim NTSB text is quoted above.

Details

StatusClosed - Acceptable Alternate Action
ModeAviation
ClosedSep 16, 2015
NTSB numberDCA97MA055
AddresseesFAA

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NTSB safety recommendations are advisory; addressees are not legally required to adopt them. Source: NTSB CAROL (public domain).