100s of Boeings Fitted With Non-FAA Approved Landing Gear

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FAA issues landing gear alert: report
Tue Apr 1, 2008 3:47am EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a Miami maintenance firm it says shipped out substandard landing-gear parts used on hundreds of Boeing Co's wide-body jetliners, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

The Journal said the FAA's notice details more than 300 instances when an AAR Corp unit shipped "unapproved" parts for use on Boeing aircraft in recent years.

The FAA also said the landing-gear parts didn't comply with maintenance manuals and one of its mandatory safety directives from 2001, the newspaper reported. [Full Article]

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