# AD 86-09-09: Slide Pack Release Cable Assemblies - Type: Airworthiness directive - Status: Current - Products: Boeing 757-200 Series - Effective: May 30, 1986 - Superseded by: Nothing supersedes this AD - Product type: Aircraft, Large airplane - Amendment: 39-5304 - Registered aircraft: 243 may be affected, by airframe or engine model (OpenAirDocs) - FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/14E060789CE7C452862568AA0068585F.0001 - DRS record last changed: May 30, 2024 - Page: https://openairdocs.org/ad/86-09-09 ## The airworthiness directive 86-09-09 BOEING: Amendment 39-5304. Applies to Boeing Model 757-200 airplanes, listed in Boeing Service Bulletin 757-25A0058, dated April 18, 1986, certificated in any category. Compliance required within 45 days after the effective date of this amendment, unless already accomplished. To ensure proper door opening and escape slide deployment accomplish the following: A. Modify slide pack release cable assemblies on Doors No. 1 and No. 2, left and right, in accordance with Boeing Service Bulletin 757-25A0058, dated April 18, 1986, or later FAA-approved revisions. B. An alternate means of compliance or adjustment of the compliance time, which provides an acceptable level of safety, may be used when approved by the Manager, Seattle Aircraft Certification Office, FAA, Northwest Mountain Region. C. Special flight permits may be issued in accordance with FAR 21.197 and 21.199 to operate airplanes to a base for the accomplishment of inspections and/or modifications required by this AD. All persons affected by this AD who have not already received copies of the service bulletin cited herein may obtain copies upon request from the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, P.O. Box 3707, Seattle, Washington 98124. This document may be examined at the FAA, Northwest Mountain Region, 17900 Pacific Highway South, Seattle, Washington, or the Seattle Aircraft Certification Office, 9010 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, Washington. This amendment becomes effective May 30, 1986. ## Affected data sheets (1) (OpenAirDocs) The type certificate data sheets whose models the AD names. - [TCDS A2NM](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A2NM): The Boeing Company; names 1 of 4 models: 757-200 Series ## Registered aircraft it may apply to (OpenAirDocs) Matched by airframe and engine model; the AD's applicability may narrow it by serial number, part number or equipment. - Aircraft: 243 (243 by airframe model, 0 by engine model) - Makers: Boeing 243 Models with the most aircraft: - [Boeing 757-232](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-232): 63 aircraft (airframe model) - [Boeing 757-224](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-224): 40 aircraft (airframe model) - [Boeing 757-222](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-222): 38 aircraft (airframe model) - [Boeing 757-223](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-223): 23 aircraft (airframe model) - [Boeing 757-236](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-236): 20 aircraft (airframe model) - [Boeing 757-251](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-251): 18 aircraft (airframe model) - [Boeing 757-231](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-231): 13 aircraft (airframe model) - [Boeing 757-200 SERIES](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-200-series): 7 aircraft (airframe model) - [Boeing 757-204](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-204): 6 aircraft (airframe model) - [Boeing 757-225](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-225): 5 aircraft (airframe model) - [Boeing 757-230](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-230): 4 aircraft (airframe model) - [Boeing 757-258](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-258): 3 aircraft (airframe model) - [Boeing 757-256](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-256): 3 aircraft (airframe model) All 13 models: https://openairdocs.org/ad/86-09-09/models.md Every aircraft: https://openairdocs.org/ad/86-09-09/aircraft.md Its text cites no advisory circulars or STCs. ## NTSB investigations that cite this AD (1) From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. - [NTSB DCA24FA002](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA24FA002), Oct 5, 2023: Boeing 757-236 (N977FD), Chattanooga, TN, substantial damage. Probable cause: The failure of the alternate gear extension system, which prevented the landing gear from being lowered. The cause of the system failure was a broken wire, due to tensile overload, between the… --- OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.