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Mon, Nov 10, 2008

NWA Temporarily Grounds 27 Boeing 757s

Compliance With Landing Gear AD Causes Some Delays, Cancellations

An internal audit by Northwest Airlines resulted in the grounding of 27 of its Boeing 757s the night of November 7, as NWA contacted the Federal Aviation Administration after discovering an airworthiness directive had not been fully complied with.

Northwest vice president Tammy Lee Stanoch said, "We learned that we were technically noncompliant with one minor aspect of an FAA air worthiness directive on a 757 main landing gear component," the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune reported.

Affecting almost 10 percent of the fleet and about 2600 passengers, the temporary grounding delayed flights for nearly three hours. Passengers were either put on other flights or given hotel accommodations.

By late Friday evening, NWA had satisfied an alternative means of compliance with the AD, and the FAA "cleared the 757s to return to service," Stanoch said. "At no point was the safety of our passengers compromised. Safety remains the top priority at Northwest and our parent company, Delta."

FMI: www.nwa.com, www.delta.com

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