I have searched the FAA website but have found nothing. Maybe someone could point me in the right direction ? I work for an european airline which relies rather heavily on a fleet of A300B4s. That prompts the question whether a FAA directive would have any effect on non-N registred aircraft. Presumeably a world-wide grounding of the A300B2/4 fleet would have to come from the french DGCA, and not the FAA. In the same way that the DGCA would not be able to impose a worldwide grounding of, say, the 737 classics.
But first of all, can we have this rumour substantiated. We have a US affiliate which also operates A300s and any grounding, or TOW restrictions due inop thrust reversers, would have rather nasty implications for our customers.
Puzzled
