Airworthiness Directive · Amendment 39-9651 · PTC Seating Products Division, B/E Aerospace, Model 950 Series Passenger Seats Equipped With Footrest Assembly
PTC Seating Products Division, B/E Aerospace, Model 950 Series Passenger Seats Equipped With Footrest Assembly
PTC Seating Products Division, B/E Aerospace (PTC) Model 950 series passenger seat equipped with footrest assembly. Note: This AD applies to each seat identified in the preceding applicability provision, regardless of whether it has been modified, altered, or repaired in the area subject to the requirements of this AD. For seats equipped with footrest assembly that have been modified, altered, or repaired so that the performance of the requirements of this AD is affected, the owner/operator must use the authority provided in paragraph (b) to request approval from the FAA. This approval may address either no action, if the current configuration eliminates the unsafe condition, or different actions necessary to address the unsafe condition described in this AD. Such a request should include an assessment of the effect of the changed configuration on the unsafe condition addressed by this AD. In no case does the presence of any modification, alteration, or repair remove any seat from the applicability of this AD.
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to PTC Seating Products Division, B/E Aerospace (PTC), formally known as PTC Aerospace, Model 950 series passenger seats with footrest assembly. This amendment will require the removal of the footrest assembly arms and the installation of a conversion kit on each PTC Model 950 series passenger seat equipped with footrest assembly. This amendment is prompted by two incidents of finger injuries that occurred during attempts to either extend or retract the footrest system on PTC Model 950 series passenger seats equipped with footrest assembly. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent injury to hands during the operation of a PTC Model 950 series passenger seat equipped with footrest assembly.
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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