Mallard Inspections Ordered
Credit: NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFTEY BOARD
A new FAA emergency airworthiness directive requires inspections of G-73 Mallard airplanes, to avert structural failure of the wing. The Dec. 30 directive (2006-01-51) follows the Dec. 19 crash of a Chalk's Ocean Airways 1947 Grumman twin-engine G-73T Turbo Mallard that killed 20 people (AW&ST Jan...
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