Boeing urges stabilizer inspections

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Boeing Co plan to send out letters urging airlines to conduct inspections of horizontal stabilizer, a device for raising and lowering a jet's nose. The move follows the discovery of a damaged jackscrew from the wreckage of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which crashed on Jan 31, 2000, due to horizontal stabiliser difficulties. Alaska Airlines and American Airlines announced that they will begin inspection of horizontal stabilizers on their aircraft.

Aircraft

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Redesign ordered for 737 rudders

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Boeing Co and federal officials are expected to announce on Sep 14, 2000 a major redesign of the rudder on its 737 aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration said that the changes in the rudder design, which investigators have blamed for two crashes in the 1990s, will enhance the safety of the aircraft. The redesigning of the rudder on 737s will be done over a five-year span starting in 2001.

Civilian Aircraft

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Boeing to renovate 737 rudders

Article Abstract:

Boeing Co has announced that it is conducting a redesign of the rudder system of its more than 3,000 737 jets. The decision has been reached with aircraft regulators at the Federal Aviation Administration after years of study by crash investigators. It closes a lengthy probe into one of the great mysteries of aviation safety which began with the crash of a United Airlines in 1991 and ended in a USAir Flight 427 crash that killed 132 people in 1994.

Product standards, safety, & recalls, Jumbo Jets

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