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AD 2016-12-51 Airworthiness Directives; Airbus Helicopters

Superseded. This directive was replaced by AD 2021-16-05. Work to the current one.
2016-07-20
2016-07-05
39-18578
FAA-2016-8032
Airframe
2021-16-05

Applicability*9

This AD becomes effective July 20, 2016 to all persons except those persons to whom it was made immediately effective by Emergency AD 2016-12-51 issued on June 3, 2016, which contains the requirements of this AD.

Compliance

(1) The Manager, Safety Management Group, FAA, may approve AMOCs for this AD. Send your proposal to: Gary Roach, Aviation Safety Engineer, Regulations and Policy Group, Rotorcraft Directorate, FAA, 10101 Hillwood Pkwy., Fort Worth, TX 76177; telephone (817) 222-5110; 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) Emergency AD 2016-0104-E, dated June 2, 2016. You may view the EASA AD on the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov by searching for and locating it in Docket No. FAA-2016-8032.

Unsafe condition

Further flight is prohibited.

Affected ADs

This AD defines the unsafe condition as failure of the main rotor system, which will result in loss of control of the helicopter.

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