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AD 2016-05-10 Airworthiness Directives; Airbus Helicopters

2016-03-28
2016-03-11
39-18428
FAA-2015-4381
Airframe
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Applicability*9

This AD becomes effective March 28, 2016.

Compliance

(1) The Manager, Safety Management Group, FAA, may approve AMOCs for this AD. Send your proposal to: David Hatfield, Aviation Safety Engineer, Safety Management Group, Rotorcraft Directorate, FAA, 10101 Hillwood Pkwy, Fort Worth, TX 76177; telephone (817) 222-5116; email 9-ASW-FTW-AMOC-Requests@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 (EASA) AD No. 2015-0048, dated March 17, 2015. You may view the EASA AD on the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov by searching for and locating it in Docket No. FAA-2015-4381.

Unsafe condition

Before the next flight over water, install a sheath kit on each left-hand and right-hand life raft deployment control in accordance with the Accomplishment Instructions, paragraph 3.B.2, of Airbus Helicopters Alert Service Bulletin (ASB) No. AS365-25.01.45, Revision 1, dated February 2, 2015, or ASB No. EC155-25A128, Revision 1, dated February 2, 2015, whichever is applicable to your helicopter.

Affected ADs

This AD defines the unsafe condition as an external life raft's failure to deploy. This condition could prevent the safe evacuation of helicopter occupants during an emergency landing in water.

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