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Old 21st Mar 2009, 12:33
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"FAA May Ground Sikorsky Helicopters" (WSJ article)

See link below to WSJ article:

FAA May Ground Sikorsky Helicopters - WSJ.com

A post from a related Rotorheads thread:

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States will issue an emergency airworthiness directive stipulating that all operators of the Sikorsky S-92A helicopter must install improved steel mounting studs, replacing titanium studs, before the choppers fly again.
But a spokeswoman for the FAA said Friday it was still reviewing what the TSB found.
“We are considering an action to take, but we certainly haven’t issued anything yet and I don’t think we’ve determined when and exactly what we’re going to issue yet,” Laura Brown said from Washington, D.C.
“It’s just a little bit ahead of where we are on this ... they (TSB) made it sound like a fait accompli and it’s not yet.”
There seems to be confusion as to whether a grounding has been ordred or not. Can anyone post the official text of such an order?

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