Let me add emphasis to your statement here. ALMOST EVERY PLANE IN THE AIR HAS SOME SORT OF AD (or, in many cases, multiple) ATTACHED TO IT. It could be jack-screws in the elevators of Super-80 series airliners, to shorter inspection intervals on the Jesus nut on certain types of helicopters, to additional required…

You know what you are talking about. Thank you for posting. Let me add this for the rest of the folks, when an airworthiness condition is discovered the regulators (FAA and/or EASA typically), working with the OEM, repair agency and/or operators accomplish a Safety Risk Assessment to determine the level of risk. The…

yep, they’ve known about it for 4 years, not because the FAA found it, but because GE did. GE told Boeing and the FAA and an AD was issued to all Airlines. the airlines have also known about it, and have had an AD for 4 years requiring added inspections of the parts in question (knife seals). if they weren’t doing the…

I was replying to CherokeePilotWhiskey- who was saying that BA should maybe have chosen a less risk engine (bit difficult when their last GE-powered -200 was delivered in 1999, 12 years before the problem was identified).