How to Use airworthiness directive in a Sentence

airworthiness directive

noun

• The airworthiness directive calls for an ultrasonic inspection because the cracks and metal fatigue are not visible to the naked eye.
  — Rene Marsh and Gregory Wallace, CNN, 1 May 2018
• There were no outstanding airworthiness directives or minimum equipment list items, and all inspections were up to date.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
• In order to get planes flying again, all aircraft have now been fitted with at least one unmodified engine, making them compliant with an EASA airworthiness directive, one of the people said.
  — Bloomberg.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• The emergency airworthiness directive will be binding on all U.S. carriers flying Boeing 737 Max 8 versions and is expected to be embraced by regulators world-wide.
  — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
• The cancellations are not the result of an emergency airworthiness directive Friday by the Federal Aviation Administration, the airline said.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• The airworthiness directive seeks to address that human factor, proposing not only changes to the aircraft design but also requiring a mandatory training program for pilots, including flight simulator training.
  — David Rising, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
• The same family of engines experienced an unrelated safety problem five years ago, prompting a previous FAA airworthiness directive.
  — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
• Shortly after the incident, the FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive requiring inspections.
  — Rene Marsh and Gregory Wallace, CNN, 1 May 2018

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