The Federal Aviation Administration has just issued the emergency airworthiness directive (AD) that orders operators of 175 Boeing 737-300s, -400s and -500s to do emergency inspections.
The directive requires that airlines inspect the lap joints that run the length of the fuselage based on how many takeoff and landing cycles the airplane has performed (a cycle is one takeoff and landing). …
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