Airworthiness Directive · Amendment 39-9064 · The Boeing Company Airplanes
The Boeing Company Airplanes
This AD applies to The Boeing Company DC-10-30, DC-10-30F (KC-10A, KDC-10).
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 McDonnell Douglas Model DC-10-30 and -30F series airplanes, that requires replacement of cargo door latch spool fitting attach bolts fabricated from H-11 steel with Inconel bolts. This amendment is prompted by a report of a broken latch spool fitting attach bolt found on a cargo door on a Model DC-9 series freighter airplane. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent inadvertent opening of a cargo door while the airplane is in flight, and subsequent loss of pressurization and reduced controllability of the airplane.
