More Inspections Will Be Ordered for Older Transports

Rulemaking has been proposed to require operators of older Airbus, BAC, Boeing, Douglas, Fokker and Lockheed aircraft to incorporate "repair assessment guidelines" for the fuselage pressure boundary (fuselage skins and pressure webs). If enacted, the rule will serve to establish a damage-tolerance...

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