FIREFIGHTING FALLOUT

The focus on the safety of firefighting aircraft has resulted in an airworthiness directive (AD) on Lockheed's 1940s-vintage P2V Neptune, a Navy patrol aircraft that has been converted to fire-bombing. Reports of extensive cracking on the lower wing surface between the fuselage and engine nacelles...

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