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AD 2012-25-01 Airworthiness Directives; Eurocopter France Helicopters
Applicability*9
This AD becomes effective June 5, 2013.
Compliance
(1) The Manager, Safety Management Group, FAA, may approve AMOCs for this AD. Send your proposal to: Robert Grant, Aviation Safety Engineer, Safety Management Group, FAA, 2601 Meacham Blvd., Fort Worth, Texas 76137; telephone (817) 222-5110; email robert.grant@faa.gov. (2) For operations conducted under a 14 CFR part 119 operating certificate or under 14 CFR part 91, subpart K, we suggest that you notify your principal inspector, or lacking a principal inspector, the manager of the local flight standards district office or certificate holding district office, before operating any aircraft complying with this AD through an AMOC.
Required actions
The subject of this AD is addressed in European Aviation Safety Agency AD No. 2011-0072, dated April 20, 2011.
Unsafe condition
Within 110 hours time-in-service or 3 months, whichever occurs first, and thereafter at intervals not to exceed 13 months: (1) Using a 5X or higher power magnifying glass, visually inspect the front emergency floatation gear attachment bracket, section B-B, item (e) in Areas F, G, and H of Figure 1 of Eurocopter Alert Service Bulletin No. AS350-05.00.63 or No. AS355-05.00.58, both Revision 1, and both dated April 18, 2011, as applicable to your model helicopter (ASB); and the rear emergency flotation gear attachment bracket, section A-A, item (a) in Areas D and E of Figure 1 of the ASB, for a crack. (2) If there is a crack, replace the cracked emergency floatation gear attachment bracket with an airworthy emergency floatation gear attachment bracket prior to reinstallation of the emergency flotation equipment.
Affected ADs
This AD defines the unsafe condition as a crack in an attachment bracket of the emergency flotation gear. This condition could result in failure of the emergency flotation system and loss of float stability in the event of a water landing.
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