NTSB: Planes may break apart. »
Posted By Digitalis 8 months, 1 week ago in NewsIn a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) has asked that all flights of Zenith Aircraft Company's (Zenair) Zodiac CH-601XLs be prohibited until a few urgent safety issues are resolved. After evaluating six accidents, the NTSB determined the kit-built plane was susceptible to in-flight break ups. No, I'm not talking about some insignificant piece of airplane falling to the ground leaving you with a gaping hole on your fuselage; what the NTSB is saying is that you'll be flying along on your Zodiac and suddenly the wing of the thing folds over the fuselage or the tail breaks off. The NTSB advised the FAA to prohibit the flights and also sent a letter to American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International, the organization responsible for determining design, manufacturing, and flight standards of light sport aircraft (LSA) regarding changes they think should be made to the LSA certification standards. The CH-601XLs are mostly certified as LSA now, but used to get an experimental airworthiness status before.
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