# AD 89-22-09: Passenger Door Evacuation

- Type: Airworthiness directive
- Status: Current
- Products: EADS CASA C-212-CB, C-212-CC, C-212-CD, C-212-CE, C-212-CF, C-212-DE and C-212-DF with STC SA906GL
- Effective: November 20, 1989
- Superseded by: Nothing supersedes this AD
- Product type: Aircraft, Large airplane
- Amendment: 39-6363
- Docket: 89-NM-111-AD
- Registered aircraft: 18 may be affected, by airframe or engine model (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/DAB03D21D1C90860862569EC005B3670.0001
- DRS record last changed: May 30, 2024
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ad/89-22-09

## The airworthiness directive

89-22-09 CASA: Amendment 39-6363. Docket No. 89-NM-111-AD. Applicability: Model C-212 series airplanes equipped with a passenger entry step installed under Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) SA906GL, certificated in any category.

Compliance: Required within 60 days after the effective date of this AD, unless previously accomplished.

To prevent delay in opening the passenger door in the event of an emergency evacuation, accomplish the following:

A. Remove the step, handrails, door latch modifications, and associated hardware installed in accordance with Fischer Brothers Aviation, Inc., Installation Instructions for FBD-206, Revision F, dated June 5, 1985.

B. Restore the door handle to the original CASA configuration.

C. 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, Chicago Aircraft Certification Office, ACE-115C, FAA, Central Region.

NOTE:The request should be forwarded through an FAA Principal Maintenance Inspector (PMI), who will either concur or comment, and then send it to the Manager, Chicago Aircraft Certification Office, ACE-115C.

D. Special flight permits may be issued in accordance with FAR 21.197 and 21.199 to operate airplanes to a base in order to comply with the requirements of this AD.

The applicable service information may be examined at the FAA, Northwest Mountain Region, Transport Airplane Directorate, 17900 Pacific Highway South, Seattle, Washington, or the Chicago Aircraft Certification Office, 2300 East Devon Avenue, Des Plaines, Illinois.

This amendment (39-6363, AD 89-22-09) becomes effective November 20, 1989.

## Affected data sheets (1) (OpenAirDocs)

The type certificate data sheets whose models the AD names.

- [TCDS A43EU](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A43EU): Airbus Defense and Space S.A.; names 7 of 7 models: C-212-DE, C-212-CB, C-212-CE, C-212-CC, C-212-CF, C-212-DF, C-212-CD

## 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: 18 (18 by airframe model, 0 by engine model)
- Makers: Construcciones Aeronauticas 14, C A S A 4

Models with the most aircraft:

- [Construcciones Aeronauticas C-212-CC](https://openairdocs.org/model/construcciones-aeronauticas-c-212-cc): 12 aircraft (airframe model)
- [C A S A C-212-DF](https://openairdocs.org/model/c-a-s-a-c-212-df): 3 aircraft (airframe model)
- [C A S A C-212-CD](https://openairdocs.org/model/c-a-s-a-c-212-cd): 1 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Construcciones Aeronauticas C-212-CB](https://openairdocs.org/model/construcciones-aeronauticas-c-212-cb): 1 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Construcciones Aeronauticas C-212-CD](https://openairdocs.org/model/construcciones-aeronauticas-c-212-cd): 1 aircraft (airframe model)

All 5 models: https://openairdocs.org/ad/89-22-09/models.md
Every aircraft: https://openairdocs.org/ad/89-22-09/aircraft.md

## Related documents

- [STC SA906GL](https://openairdocs.org/stc/SA906GL): Install step and handrails.. Fischer Brothers Avn Inc, Named in the applicability

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