Airworthiness Directive · Amendment 39-9232 · BAE Systems (Operations) Limited Airplanes
BAE Systems (Operations) Limited Airplanes
This AD applies to BAE Systems (Operations) Limited Avro 146-RJ100A, Avro 146-RJ70A, Avro 146-RJ85A, BAe 146-100A, BAe 146-200A, BAe 146-300A.
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 British Aerospace Model BAe 146-100A, -200A, -300A and Model Avro 146-RJ70A, -RJ85A, and -RJ100A airplanes, that requires repetitive inspections to verify proper deployment of the evacuation slide at each door position, and various follow-on actions to correct discrepancies. This amendment is prompted by a report that, during operational checks of evacuation slides on in- service airplanes, the inflation valves failed to deploy the evacuation slide properly. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent failure of the evacuation slide to deploy automatically on demand, which would necessitate the flightcrew to manually deploy the slide; this situation could delay or impede the evacuation of passengers during an emergency.
