{"id":346243,"date":"2026-01-10T11:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/faa-proposes-horizontal-stabilizer-examinations-some-boeing-737-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:08:57","slug":"faa-proposes-horizontal-stabilizer-examinations-on-some-boeing-737-aircraft-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=346243","title":{"rendered":"FAA Proposes Horizontal Stabilizer Examinations On Some Boeing 737 Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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> has been advised of mandatory inspections for the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing-737\/NG\/\" >737 Next Generation aircraft<\/a>, specifically in relation to horizontal stabilizer components. This comes after reports of looseness and excessive freepay causing pitch control issues. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2026\/01\/09\/2026-00299\/airworthiness-directives-the-boeing-company-airplanes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >order was publicized<\/a> on January 9 and has requested comments from Boeing no later than February 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FAA&#8217;s proposed mandate puts thousands of aircraft at risk.<\/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":[396,1492,398,420,16569,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airworthiness-directive","category-boeing","category-faa","category-manufacturers","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346243","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=346243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346247,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346243\/revisions\/346247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}