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FAA Wants to Limit Fatigue Damage On Aging Commercial Planes

Steve Scott

Monday, May 1st, 2006

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While the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) April 18 proposal to mitigate widespread fatigue damage (WFD) in aging transport aircraft through operational limits is intended to make the aviation industry more proactive with WFD problems, some aviation safety experts aren't so sure that will happen. But they give different reasons for their uncertainty. In the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) with a public comment period set to end on July 17, FAA proposes to "require that design approval holders [DAHs, or…

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