Commonwealth legislation

AD/SF340/43 - Power Lever Placard

In ForceCTH

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

3/10 complexity

This Airworthiness Directive requires operators of SAAB SF340A (S/N 004–159) and SF340B (S/N 160–379) to carry out Saab Service Bulletin 340-76-033 within 14 days of 16 May 1994. It mandates placarding/marking per the SB to reduce the risk of crews moving power levers below flight idle—an overseas incident linked to propeller overspeed and dual engine power loss.

Compliance costs and installation responsibility fall to aircraft operators or their maintenance providers.

JSON API

Deep dive

Want the full deep dive?

Zoe can write the in-depth analysis on top of the summary above: how it works, who it affects and what each part actually does.

Current sections

Direct links to the current provisions in AD/SF340/43 - Power Lever Placard.

AD/SF340/43 - Power Lever Placard

meta-content-style-type: text/css meta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8 meta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 22.10.0

?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (Civil Aviation Regulations 1998), PART 39 - 105 CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY AUTHORITY

SCHEDULE OF AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES

View image in the official source SAAB SF340 Series Aeroplanes

AD/SF340/43 Power Lever Placard 7/94 DM

Applicability: All SAAB SF 340A S/N 004 through 159 and SF 340B S/N 160 through 379. Requirement: Action in accordance with SAAB Service Bulletin 340-76-033.

Note: FAA AD 94-09-09 amdt 39-8898 refers.

Compliance: Unless previously carried out within 14 days from 16 May 1994.

Background: Advice has been received of a recent event overseas where during descent all engine power was lost after both propellers overspeed possibly due to an inadvertent crew selection of the power levers to a position below ‘flight idle’.

Source text

Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.