AD NUMBER: 2005-18-16
MANUFACTURER: General Electric
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2005-18-16
SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness
directive (AD) for General Electric Company (GE) CF34-3A1 turbofan
engines installed on Bombardier series Regional Jets with certain
high pressure turbine (HPT) rotating components installed.
One woman was killed and more than a dozen people injured
Thursday when passengers evacuated a Saudi Arabian Airlines plane
on the ground at Colombo, Sri Lanka. They fled in panic after a
bomb scare that local police later suspected was a hoax.
The NTSB has determined that the probable cause of the May 9,
2004 accident involving Executive Airlines, that crashed while
landing at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport San Juan, Puerto
Rico, was the captain's failure to execute proper techniques to
recover from bounced landings and his subsequent failure to execute
a go-around.
Boeing and LOT Polish Airlines have reached an agreement for up
to 14 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, making LOT the first global network
carrier in Europe to operate the world's newest and most
technologically advanced commercial jetliner.
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