American cancels hundreds more flights as MD-80s undergo further inspections
09 Apr 2008
US passengers underwent some more travel related woes with American Airlines (AA) cancelling "several hundred" flights on 8 April in order to conduct additional MD-80 inspections and "ensure precise and complete compliance with the FAA's airworthiness directive (AD) related to the bundling of wires in the aircraft's wheel wells."
AA said there could be as many as 500 cancellations by the end of yesterday and that more would follow on 9 April. American had already undergone an earlier round of cancellations when it scrapped hundreds of flights in the final week of March after being compelled to ground its MD-80s for inspection of wire bundles on auxiliary hydraulic systems.
The carrier said FAA "raised additional concerns regarding the recent inspection of American's aircraft and the manner in which American followed the engineering change order that had been written for the airworthiness directive related to the wiring in the MD-80 wheel wells."
It said aircraft would be returned to service only after all specifications have been met.
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