# Proposed AD 98-CE-88-AD: Bob Fields Aerocessories Inflatable Door Seals

- Type: Proposed airworthiness directive (not in force)
- Status: Became AD 98-21-21
- Action: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).
- Published: October 29, 1999, 64 FR 58359
- Comments due: December 23, 1999
- Became: [AD 98-21-21](https://openairdocs.org/ad/98-21-21)
- Docket: 98-CE-88-AD
- FR document: 99-28416
- Official PDF: https://openairdocs.org/files/sha256/3a/74/3a749a6e4b6978ec544d90073faece6b9f621a67ab78e11eac98bae772740791 (from https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1999-10-29/pdf/99-28416.pdf)
- Federal Register: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/10/29/99-28416/airworthiness-directives-bob-fields-aerocessories-inflatable-door-seals
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/proposed/98-CE-88-AD

## Summary

This document proposes to revise Airworthiness Directive (AD) 98-21-21, which currently requires de-activating the electric door seal inflation system for all aircraft equipped with Bob Fields Aerocessories inflatable door seals. Since issuance of that AD, the manufacturer has developed a modification that would allow these electric door seal inflation systems to remain in service, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved this modification. The proposed AD would incorporate this modification as a method of complying with the current AD, and would exclude those airplanes with manual door seal inflation systems from the AD requirements of de- activating the system. The actions specified by the proposed AD are intended to prevent smoke and a possible fire in the cockpit caused by overheating of the electric door seal inflation systems, which could result in passenger injury.

## Notices in this docket

- Oct 29, 1999: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). (first notice), FR document 99-28416, comments due Dec 23, 1999 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/10/29/99-28416/airworthiness-directives-bob-fields-aerocessories-inflatable-door-seals)

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