{"id":96765,"date":"2019-09-28T02:23:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T09:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/u-s-faa-requiring-inspections-for-cracks-on-some-737-ng-planes"},"modified":"2019-09-28T02:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T09:23:30","slug":"u-s-faa-requiring-inspections-for-cracks-on-some-737-ng-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/u-s-faa-requiring-inspections-for-cracks-on-some-737-ng-planes","title":{"rendered":"U.S. FAA requiring inspections for cracks on some 737 NG planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-faa-requiring-inspections-for-cracks-on-some-737-ng-planes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) \u2014 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration late on Friday said it would require operators of some Boeing (BA.N) 737 NG jetliners to conduct inspections for structural cracks and make repairs as needed following the discovery of cracks on a small number of planes.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA said Boeing notified it of the issue \u201cafter it discovered the cracks while conducting modifications on a heavily used aircraft.\u201d Subsequent inspections \u201cuncovered similar cracks in a small number of additional planes.\u201d Boeing said on Friday it has been in contact with 737 NG operators about a cracking issue, but added that \u201cno in-service issues have been reported.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither the FAA nor Boeing immediately said how many planes were impacted by the required inspections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) \u2014 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration late on Friday said it would require operators of some Boeing (BA.N) 737 NG jetliners to conduct inspections for structural cracks and make repairs as needed following the discovery of cracks on a small number of planes. The FAA said Boeing notified it of the issue \u201cafter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}