CAAC | George Hatcher's Air Flight Disaster https://airflightdisaster.com Aviation News, Headlines & Alerts Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:07:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Airworthiness Directive issued by Civil Aviation Administration of China https://airflightdisaster.com/airworthiness-directive-issued-by-civil-aviation-administration-of-china/ Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:00:40 +0000 http://airflightdisaster.com/?p=15749 Fortunately for Chinese passengers, aged Boeing 737s have drawn the attention of the CAAC. (These are the types of planes which demonstrated fatigue when a hole blew in the fuselage of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 on April 1.) Planes with 35,000 total flight cycles or more will be inspected within 4 days; and those...

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