Airworthiness Directive · Amendment 39-8940 · The Boeing Company Airplanes
The Boeing Company Airplanes
This AD applies to The Boeing Company 737-300 Series.
The models as the FAA's AD index lists them. The serial ranges, installed parts and exceptions are in the AD itself: read it at the FAA.
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 737-300 series airplanes, that requires replacement of the forward and aft hinge shims and the lower hinge fairings of the main cargo door with new shims and fairings. This amendment is prompted by reports of a slight separation between the end hinge shims and the cargo door; this separation can cause bending loads on the fasteners. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent fatigue failure of the hinge fasteners, loss of structural integrity of the cargo door hinge, possible loss of the cargo door, and subsequent rapid decompression of the airplane.
