{"id":317085,"date":"2025-11-15T12:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/faa-propose-new-boeing-787-airworthiness-directive-uncommanded-altitude-changes\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T12:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:33:06","slug":"faa-to-propose-new-boeing-787-airworthiness-directive-after-uncommanded-altitude-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=317085","title":{"rendered":"FAA To Propose New Boeing 787 Airworthiness Directive After Uncommanded Altitude Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American plane maker <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> could be set for an airworthiness directive, which would relate to all <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254963\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 787<\/span><\/span>variants (787-8, 787-9, and 787-10). The directive, which is proposed to be published on <a href=\"https:\/\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2025-20014.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Monday, November 17<\/a>, relates to the uncommanded changes for the Mode Control Panel (also known as MCP) selected altitude. This altitude setting can currently change without pilot input. The directive from the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257847\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Federal Aviation Administration<\/span><\/span> would request that all MCPs (between part numbers 4091640-901, 902, and 903) be replaced with an updated MCP, in addition to an installation test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The directive could be looming for Boeing&#8217;s Dreamliner fleet after unexpected altitude shifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,7453,1492,398,995,420,16569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-altitude","category-airworthiness-directive","category-boeing","category-boeing-787","category-faa","category-manufacturers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317131,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317085\/revisions\/317131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}