WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday issued a directive to operators of all Boeing BA.N 737 sequence airplanes to conduct inspections to deal with attainable failures of the cabin altitude strain switches.
The directive requires operators to conduct repetitive exams of the switches and change them if wanted. The directive covers 2,502 U.S.-registered airplanes and 9,315 airplanes worldwide. It was prompted after an operator reported that on three totally different 737 fashions each strain switches failed the on-wing practical take a look at.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Modifying by Leslie Adler)
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