Originally Posted by
jugofpropwash
One would hope - but, technically, the date wasn't up. And there's always the chance something could be missed in an inspection. Could a failure have resulted in this sort of crash?
While I'm not familiar with the AD in question, it's pretty common for the AD compliance times in question to be staggered based on risk (for structural issues it's typically age related - hours and/or cycles). So you might have something where aircraft with more than xxxxx cycles must comply within 3 years, those with less have 6 years.
That being said, it would extraordinarily sloppy for an aircraft to come out of a major structural mod with an outstanding AD not complied with.
I was in this business long enough to know you 'never say never', but I think the likelihood is quite small that whatever happened is related to that AD.