Avoiding Fatigue

An FAA-proposed airworthiness directive issued last week aims at preventing fatigue cracking on about 975 Boeing 767 aircraft. The AD expands the area for repetitive, detailed inspection—Station 1809.5 bulkhead—mandated in a previous AD, to include the vertical inner chord. Fatigue cracking in the...

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