NEW YORK: US regulators said on Monday (Aug 20) they ordered inspections of pilot seats on hundreds of Boeing 787 planes following a March flight in which the plane's sudden plunge led to passenger injuries.
New Zealand investigators have seized the flight recorder from a Boeing -made LATAM plane, searching for the cause of a mid-air plunge that injured dozens of travellers NEW YORK: US regulators said on Monday they ordered inspections of pilot seats on hundreds of Boeing 787 planes following a March flight in which the plane's sudden plunge led to passenger injuries.
Operators are also required to perform necessary corrective actions under the airworthiness directive, which affects 158 US-registered 787 Dreamliner models and 737 planes worldwide, the FAA said.Since that incident, the FAA has received reports from Boeing of four additional instances of"uncommanded horizontal movement" of the captain and first officer's seats, the agency said.
The"unintended and sustained movement of the seat" can lead to"in-flight upset from unintended and abrupt flight control inputs, which could result in a rapid descent of the airplane and serious injury to passengers and crew", the FAA said.
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