A comment from
joe bloggs on BB's article in The Australian today -
... Boeing issued a second Multi Operator Message on the 5th Nov that has extended the inspection area on the rear spar pickle fork & fail safe strap. So its now 8 fasteners to be visually inspected instead of the one common to the S-18 stringer at Body Station 663.75 left & right hand sides. For aeros that have reached 30,000 flight cycles the three airlines have 60 days to carry out this inspection and the lower threshold has been dropped to around 21,600FC to be inspected within 1,000 FC. The repeat inspection remains at 3,500 FC. Will see if any more cracks will be found apart from the 3 Qantas planes. Grounded to date. The FAA are yet to mandate the MOM as a new airworthiness directive or will they ammend the one issued last month - its watch this space...
Has anyone seen the 5 November MOM?