FAA recommends Piper inspections after flaws found

After two incidents involving faulty factory work on Piper aircraft, the FAA has proposed that owners of piston-powered Piper-built aircraft have their right and left control columns inspected and repaired, if necessary. In one of the incidents, the right-hand control wheel on a Seneca broke off due to a mis-drilled hole in the column at the universal joint, and in the other, a ground inspection of a Seneca revealed a similar problem on the left control wheel.

FlightGlobal.com | 10/31

This story published in Aviation eBrief on 11/02/2009

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