# Proposed AD 2000-NM-415-AD: Airbus Model A319, A320, and A321 Series Airplanes

- Type: Proposed airworthiness directive (not in force)
- Status: Became AD 2001-15-06
- Action: <RM>Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).
- Published: April 30, 2001, 66 FR 21291
- Comments due: May 30, 2001
- Became: [AD 2001-15-06](https://openairdocs.org/ad/2001-15-06)
- Docket: 2000-NM-415-AD
- FR document: 01-10595
- Official PDF: https://openairdocs.org/files/sha256/22/4b/224b57e04e4a9d0a1372a5c75609de8672722b474784b13c70551d1a0ad6d302 (from https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2001-04-30/pdf/01-10595.pdf)
- Federal Register: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/04/30/01-10595/airworthiness-directives-airbus-model-a319-a320-and-a321-series-airplanes
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/proposed/2000-NM-415-AD

## Summary

<RM>This document proposes the supersedure of an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Airbus Model A319, A320, and A321 series airplanes, that currently requires modification of the forward and aft evacuation slide systems by replacing the Velcro restraints for the support logs with frangible link restraints. This action would reduce the time to accomplish the modification from 3 years to 9 months. This proposal is prompted by issuance of mandatory continuing airworthiness information by a foreign civil airworthiness authority. The actions specified by the proposed AD are intended to prevent the ingestion of sill support-log material into the aspirator of the evacuation slide, which could result in failure of the slide to inflate.

## Notices in this docket

- Apr 30, 2001: <RM>Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). (first notice), FR document 01-10595, comments due May 30, 2001 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/04/30/01-10595/airworthiness-directives-airbus-model-a319-a320-and-a321-series-airplanes)

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