MANUFACTURER: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Various Models MU-2B Airplanes SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2010-10-17
SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new
airworthiness directive (AD) to supersede Airworthiness Directive
(AD) 2006-17-01, AD 2006-15-07, AD 2000-02-25, and AD 97-25-02,
which applies to certain Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI)
various Models MU-2B airplanes. An FAA MU-2B safety evaluation
resulted in the standardization of the MU-2B specific training and
the FAA-accepted pilot operating checklists through a special
Federal aviation regulation (SFAR). MHI revised the airplane flight
manuals (AFMs) to align them with the information in that training
and the checklists. In addition, incorporating all AFM revisions up
to and including this latest AFM revision will incorporate all AFM
compliance actions required by the four above-mentioned ADs. This
AD would retain from AD 2006-17-01 the inspection of the engine
torque indication system and possible recalibration of the torque
pressure transducers and would require incorporating all revisions
up to and including the latest revisions of the AFM. We are issuing
this AD to correct inconsistencies in critical operating procedures
between the MU-2B specific training, the FAA-accepted pilot
operating checklists, and the AFMs, which, if not corrected, could
result in the pilot inadvertently taking inappropriate actions in
critical operating conditions.
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