Airworthiness Directive · Amendment 39-10766 · Boeing Model 777-200 Series Airplanes Equipped With Air Cruisers Evacuation Slide/Rafts
Boeing Model 777-200 Series Airplanes Equipped With Air Cruisers Evacuation Slide/Rafts
Model 777-200 series airplanes, line positions 2 through 48 inclusive, excluding line positions 10, 41, 43, and 47; equipped with Air Cruisers evacuation slide/rafts, as identified in Air Cruisers Service Bulletin S.B. 777-107-25-02, dated October 29, 1996; certificated in any category.
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 777-200 series airplanes, that requires modifying the sliding surface of the door 1 left and door 1 right evacuation slide/rafts. This amendment is prompted by a report of injuries to evacuees using the slide/raft to exit the airplane; the evacuees were unable to achieve adequate initial sliding speed and adequate momentum to carry them expeditiously down the slide/raft. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent evacuee overload of the slide/rafts, and consequent impeded evacuation and injury to the evacuees.
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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