{"id":317377,"date":"2025-11-16T04:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/faa-expands-engine-pylon-airworthiness-directive-to-dc-10\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T04:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:31:15","slug":"faa-expands-engine-pylon-airworthiness-directive-to-dc-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=317377","title":{"rendered":"FAA Expands Engine Pylon Airworthiness Directive To DC-10"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has widened its emergency response to a serious engine pylon issue that was first uncovered on the MD-11 freighter fleet. Days after grounding the McDonnell Douglas<\/a><\/span> MD-11F for urgent inspections following the tragic and ultimately fatal crash of UPS Airlines Flight 2976 in Louisville, aerospace regulators in the United States have now expanded the same emergency airworthiness directive to include the older Douglas DC-10 variants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This follows from a deadly crash that occurred in Kentucky.<\/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":[396,420,3773,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-faa","category-mcdonnell-douglas-dc-10","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t