{"id":281290,"date":"2019-07-10T05:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T05:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=281290"},"modified":"2019-07-10T05:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T05:56:44","slug":"airbus-to-ask-airlines-to-check-wings-of-older-a380s-for-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airbus-to-ask-airlines-to-check-wings-of-older-a380s-for-cracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus to ask airlines to check wings of older A380s for cracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European aircraft maker Airbus will ask airlines operating 25 of its oldest A380 super-jumbo jets to inspect their wings after cracks were found in some models, the EU\u2019s Aviation Safety Agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The EASA said in an airworthiness directive dated July 5 that \u201coccurrences have been reported of finding cracks\u201d in certain parts of the wing on in-service A380 aeroplanes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis condition, if not detected and corrected, could reduce the structural integrity of the wing,\u201d the EASA said. \u201cTo address this potential unsafe condition, Airbus plans to issue the SB (service bulletin) to provide inspection instructions.\u201d The directive does not yet ground any aircraft for the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European aircraft maker Airbus will ask airlines operating 25 of its oldest A380 super-jumbo jets to inspect their wings after cracks were found in some models, the EU\u2019s Aviation Safety Agency said. The EASA said in an airworthiness directive dated July 5 that \u201coccurrences have been reported of finding cracks\u201d in certain parts of the wing on in-service A380 aeroplanes. \u201cThis condition, if not detected and corrected, could reduce the structural integrity of the wing,\u201d the EASA said. \u201cTo address this potential unsafe condition, Airbus plans to issue the SB (service bulletin) to provide inspection instructions.\u201d The directive does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}