# Proposed AD FAA-2025-0008: Airbus SAS Airplanes

- Type: Proposed airworthiness directive (not in force)
- Status: Became AD 2025-08-01
- Products: Airbus
- Product type: Aircraft
- Action: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).
- Published: January 21, 2025, 90 FR 6841
- Comments due: March 7, 2025
- Became: [AD 2025-08-01](https://openairdocs.org/ad/2025-08-01)
- Docket: FAA-2025-0008 (https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FAA-2025-0008, where comments are filed)
- Project: MCAI-2024-00563-T
- FR document: 2025-01358
- Official PDF: https://openairdocs.org/files/sha256/45/77/45776588edd6854c06c625abf25ac4fda4df184dcf7f100e5a4ba64a043401b0 (from https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-21/pdf/2025-01358.pdf)
- Federal Register: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/21/2025-01358/airworthiness-directives-airbus-sas-airplanes
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/FR-ADNPRM-2025-01358-00000000000.0001
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/proposed/FAA-2025-0008

## Summary

The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Airbus SAS Model A321-251NX, -252NX, -253NX, -271NX, and -272NX airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by discovery of two bushes that had migrated on the latch shaft of an emergency overwing exit door (OWED) during accomplishment of an inspection on an in-service airplane. This proposed AD would require repetitive detailed inspections (DETs) of the affected parts and, in case of discrepancies, modification of the affected parts, and would prohibit the installation of affected parts, as specified in a European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) AD, which is proposed for incorporation by reference (IBR). The FAA is proposing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.

## Notices in this docket

- Jan 21, 2025: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). (first notice), FR document 2025-01358, comments due Mar 7, 2025 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/21/2025-01358/airworthiness-directives-airbus-sas-airplanes)

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