United Airlines Retests Some 747 Equipment
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United Airlines said on Thursday that it is retesting the altitude indicators on seven of its Boeing 747 jumbo jets after determining that test equipment at a maintenance facility in South Korea needed to be checked for calibration.
 "We have voluntarily disclosed to the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) that we are retesting the seven aircraft today and have found no issues," United said in a statement. One of the jets is back in service and the remainder are expected to resume normal flight operations later tonight or tomorrow, said spokeswoman Jean Medina. United said the testing was not related to the FAA's recent air worthiness directive.
The FAA earlier this week launched an audit of maintenance records at all
domestic airlines following alleged inspection lapses at Southwest Airlines that
led the agency to propose a record fine of $10.2 million on March 6. Southwest
allegedly missed deadlines to inspect 46 Boeing 737s for structural flaws in
2006-07 and flew those planes after alerting the FAA about the oversight but
before it completed the checks. Small fuselage cracks were found on six planes
and fixed.
Southwest subsequently launched an internal review of its records and found
another lapsed inspection for fuselage cracks. It immediately grounded 38 planes
last week. Four were found to have cracks, the airline said.
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