# Proposed AD FAA-2016-4225: The Boeing Company Airplanes

- Type: Proposed airworthiness directive (not in force)
- Status: Became AD 2017-05-07
- Products: Boeing
- Product type: Aircraft
- Action: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).
- Published: March 17, 2016, 81 FR 14402
- Comments due: May 2, 2016
- Became: [AD 2017-05-07](https://openairdocs.org/ad/2017-05-07)
- Docket: FAA-2016-4225 (https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FAA-2016-4225, where comments are filed)
- Project: 2015-NM-139-AD
- FR document: 2016-05831
- Official PDF: https://openairdocs.org/files/sha256/96/d9/96d9208d8582516e50c720c151435c85be66f26cd507c7e0e2ba61cf52f2c2d5 (from https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2016-03-17/pdf/2016-05831.pdf)
- Federal Register: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/03/17/2016-05831/airworthiness-directives-the-boeing-company-airplanes
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/80486E97912B4ADF86257F790051DD01.0001
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/proposed/FAA-2016-4225

## Summary

We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for The Boeing Company Model 777-200 and -300 series airplanes equipped with Rolls-Royce Model Trent 800 engines. This proposed AD was prompted by reports of damage to the upper bifurcation forward fire seal and seal deflector, and localized damage to the insulation blanket installed just aft of the fire seal. This proposed AD would require installing serviceable thrust reverser (T/R) halves on the left and right engines. We are proposing this AD to prevent a breach in the engine firewall due to a failed upper bifurcation forward fire seal. A breach could delay or prevent the fire detection and suppression system from functioning properly, and could result in an increased risk of a fire, prolonged burning, and breach of the fire zone; and could allow fire to reach unprotected areas of the engine, the strut, and wing after engine shutdown. Also, fan air bypassing the fire seal could cause localized damage to the T/R insulation blanket installed just aft of the fire seal, which could allow limited thermal degradation of the thrust reverser inner wall. This could aggravate existing damage and cause the thrust reverser's inner wall to fail.

## Notices in this docket

- Mar 17, 2016: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). (first notice), FR document 2016-05831, comments due May 2, 2016 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/03/17/2016-05831/airworthiness-directives-the-boeing-company-airplanes)

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