COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (Civil Aviation Regulations 1998), PART 39 - 105 CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY AUTHORITY
SCHEDULE OF AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES
Airbus Industrie A319, A320 and A321 Series Aeroplanes
AD/A320/71 Slide/Slide Raft Release Cable 13/96
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Applicability: All models with MSNs up to and including 563, but excluding MSNs 364, 385, 514, 542, 543, 546, 551, 556.
Requirement: Action in accordance with Airbus Industrie AOT 25-12 Rev 1.
Note 1: DGAC AD 96-171-083(B) refers.
Note 2: Additional work will be necessary further to any previous work carried out in accordance with the initial issue of the Requirement document.
Compliance: Unless already accomplished, within 500 hours time in service after 16 October 1996. Background: This Directive is issued to prevent any possible risk of non deployment of doors 1 and
4 LH and RH due to an inoperative release cable. Failure of a slide to operate has
been traced to a cable attachment ball nipple that separated from the cable due to a production error.