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AD/RES/16 - Safety Harness End Fittings - Davis Aircraft Products P/N FD 1497M - Removal From Service

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This mandatory Civil Aviation Safety Authority Airworthiness Directive bans a faulty Davis Aircraft Products seatbelt end fitting (P/N FD 1497M) from agricultural aircraft after tests showed it can fail under low loads, risking pilot restraint in crashes. Owners/operators of crop-dusters with these harnesses must remove and replace them or replace the fittings with approved parts within 100 flight hours after 31 January 1984.

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AD/RES/16 - Safety Harness End Fittings - Davis Aircraft Products P/N FD 1497M - Removal From Service

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (Civil Aviation Regulations 1998), PART 39 - 107 CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY AUTHORITY

SCHEDULE OF AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES

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AD/RES/16 Safety Harness End Fittings - Davis Aircraft Products P/N FD 1497M - Removal From Service

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Applicability: All safety harnesses in agricultural aircraft fitted with Davis Aircraft Products anchor plate end fitting P/N FD 1497M.

Requirement: Remove from service safety harnesses fitted with Davis Aircraft products end fittings P/N FD 1497M and replace with an approved safety harness.

Note: The existing harness may be modified by replacing the applicable fittings with approved fittings.

Compliance: Within 100 hours time in service after 31 January 1984.

Background: As a result of an acident involving an agricultural aircraft in which the harness end fitting failed under low load conditions, tensile test of the applicable end fittings proved the inability of the fittings to meet the manufacturers tensile rating.

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