The advisory was issued after a 787 went into a dive this week on a flight between Australia and New Zealand, injuring 50 people.
The LATAM Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane that suddenly lost altitude midflight sits on the tarmac at Auckland International Airport in New Zealand. Boeing alerted airlines to a potential problem with loose switches on the pilot seats of its 787 Dreamliner jets after one of the planes went into a dive this week on a flight from Australia to New Zealand that injured 50 people.The jets have a switch on the back of the pilot seats that can be used to move the seats forward and backward.
Boeing said in a statement Friday that it was reminding airlines of a 2017 service bulletin addressing an issue with the switches that included instructions for inspections and maintenance.“We are recommending operators perform an inspection at the next maintenance opportunity,” Boeing said in a statement.
It was not immediately clear how many 787 aircraft were affected by the seat switch issue. But the bulletin, obtained by The Washington Post, was sent to all operators of the aircraft. It instructs operators to carefully inspect a cap on the switches to ensure they have not come loose.was operated by the Chilean carrier LATAM and was traveling between Sydney and Auckland, New Zealand, on Monday.
The FAA said in a statement that its review board will examine a message Boeing is proposing to send to operators as well as the 2017 bulletin.John Cox, a former pilot and aviation safety expert, said his first question would be whether there has been a fleet history of this switch sticking or if this is the first time this has happened on the 787.
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