Airworthiness Directive · Amendment 39-21545 · Instruments
Airbus SAS Airplanes
This AD applies to Airbus SAS Model A350-941 and -1041 airplanes, certificated in any category, as identified in European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) AD 2020-0203, dated September 23, 2020 (EASA AD 2020-0203).
The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2020-09- 14, which applied to certain Airbus SAS Model A350-941 and -1041 airplanes. AD 2020-09-14 required revising the existing airplane flight manual (AFM) to define a liquid-prohibited zone on the flight deck and provide procedures following liquid spillage on the center pedestal. AD 2020-09-14 also required installing a removable integrated control panel (ICP) cover on the flight deck and further revising the AFM to include instructions for ICP cover use. This AD requires installing a new, water-resistant ICP, which allows removing the ICP protective cover and the AFM revisions, as specified in a European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) AD, which is incorporated by reference. This AD was prompted by development of a new, water-resistant ICP. The FAA is issuing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.
Except as specified in paragraph (h) of this AD: Comply with all required actions and compliance times specified in, and in accordance with, EASA AD 2020-0203.
(1) Where EASA AD 2020-0203 refers to its effective date, this AD requires using the effective date of this AD.
(2) Where EASA AD 2020-0203 refers to the effective date of EASA AD 2020-0020E, this AD requires using February 14, 2020 (the effective date of AD 2020-03-12 (85 FR 7863, February 12, 2020)).
(3) Where EASA AD 2020-0203 refers to the effective date of EASA AD 2020-0090, this AD requires using June 4, 2020 (the effective date of AD 2020-09-14).
(4) Where paragraph (7) of EASA AD 2020-0203 specifies removing the AFM [airplane flight manual] changes “as required by paragraph (2) or (4) of [the MCAI], as applicable,” this AD requires removing the AFM changes required by paragraph (1), (2), (4), or (5), as applicable, from the AFM.
(5) For airplanes with Mod 116010: This AD does not require the actions specified in paragraphs (1), (3), and (4) of EASA AD 2020-0203, as specified in paragraph (g) of this AD.
(6) “Note 1” of EASA AD 2020-0203 does not apply to this AD. However, after the actions required by EASA AD 2020-0203, paragraphs (3) through (5), as required by paragraph (g) of this AD, have been accomplished on an airplane, that airplane may be operated with a damaged or missing ICP removable cover, provided provisions that address the ICP removable cover are included in the operator's approved minimum equipment list (MEL). After the actions required by EASA AD 2020-0203, paragraph (6), as required by paragraph (g) of this AD, have been accomplished on an airplane, that airplane may be operated without an ICP removable cover, provided provisions that address the ICP removable cover are removed from the operator's approved MEL.
(7) The “Remarks” section of EASA AD 2020-0203 does not apply to this AD.
The aircraft, engines and makers this AD names, by the model designations in its text. A model listed here may still be outside the AD's serial ranges.
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