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Tue, Jun 15, 2004

Fast Work, Indeed

Piper Finds, Repairs 49 Aircraft Grounded By Bad Steel

New Piper Aircraft says it's completed a Herculean task in what has to be a record amount of time -- finding 49 airplanes built with faulty steel and replacing the bad parts.

The aircraft, representing a large portion of the Piper line, were all grounded last month when the company disclosed it had built them with a load of "raw sheet steel from which critical parts are fabricated, [that] may not have been properly normalized prior to shipment to Piper. In this state, the steel may not possess the appropriate strength requirement." 

Piper's Mark Miller noted that the speedy response was "an example of our system moved very quickly to remedy an unexpected problem. For sure, it shows that our QA program worked and worked well. We're still working, though, with the FAA to ID everything that happened, and to prevent future problems from occurring." 

All of the aircraft were licensed since February 9th.

FMI: www.newpiper.com

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