Jay Honeck wrote:
The FAA doesn't issue an AD unless someone has proposed a fix. Apparently
nobody has come up with a fix for the Airbus problem, so there's no AD
yet. I expect that the FAA feels that there is insufficient cause to
ground the entire Airbus fleet over this. Michelle is probably correct
that they will not take that step unless somebody is killed in one of
these incidents.

That's dumb.

They call it an "airworthiness directive" for a reason. If they have no fix,
they can't "direct" you to do anything to fix the problem. So far the agencies
around the world such as the FAA seems to feel that this problem is unlikely to
cause anything more than some press excitement and purchase of replacement parts
and provide a little exercise for the emergency people.

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