# Proposed AD FAA-2024-0040: Airbus SAS Airplanes

- Type: Proposed airworthiness directive (not in force)
- Status: Became AD 2024-08-05
- Products: Airbus Industrie
- Product type: Aircraft
- Action: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).
- Published: January 31, 2024, 89 FR 6051
- Comments due: March 18, 2024
- Became: [AD 2024-08-05](https://openairdocs.org/ad/2024-08-05)
- Docket: FAA-2024-0040 (https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FAA-2024-0040, where comments are filed)
- Project: MCAI-2023-01196-T
- FR document: 2024-01711
- Official PDF: https://openairdocs.org/files/sha256/65/70/65703f4986efbb0fb438ef11a9e8f753f7a225efa07d113d7a2eb4be39c3aac7 (from https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-01-31/pdf/2024-01711.pdf)
- Federal Register: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/01/31/2024-01711/airworthiness-directives-airbus-sas-airplanes
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/FR-ADNPRM-2024-01711-00000000000.0001
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/proposed/FAA-2024-0040

## Summary

The FAA proposes to supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2014-15-09, AD 2020-15-09, and AD 2022-16-07. AD 2014-15-09 applies to all Airbus SAS Model A330-200 Freighter, A330-200 and -300, and A340- 200, -300, -500, and -600 series airplanes. AD 2020-15-09 applies to all Airbus SAS Model A330-941 airplanes. AD 2014-15-09 and AD 2020-15- 09 require repetitive operational tests of the hydraulic locking function on certain spoiler servo-controls (SSCs) and replacement if necessary. AD 2022-16-07 applies to certain Airbus SAS Model A330-200, A330-200 Freighter, and A330-300 series airplanes. AD 2022-16-07 requires revising the existing maintenance or inspection program, as applicable, to incorporate new or more restrictive airworthiness limitations. Since the FAA issued AD 2022-16-07, the FAA has determined that new or more restrictive airworthiness limitations are necessary. This proposed AD would continue to require certain actions in AD 2014- 15-09, AD 2020-15-09, and AD 2022-16-07 and would require revising the existing maintenance or inspection program, as applicable, to incorporate new or more restrictive airworthiness limitations, as specified in a European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which is proposed for incorporation by reference (IBR). This proposed AD also removes Model A340-200, -300, -500, and -600 series airplanes from the applicability. The FAA is proposing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.

## Notices in this docket

- Jan 31, 2024: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). (first notice), FR document 2024-01711, comments due Mar 18, 2024 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/01/31/2024-01711/airworthiness-directives-airbus-sas-airplanes)

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