{"id":558125,"date":"2025-11-08T22:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/558125\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T22:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:35:11","slug":"faa-orders-inspections-on-all-md-11-planes-after-deadly-kentucky-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/558125\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA orders inspections on all MD-11 planes after deadly Kentucky crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Saturday, Nov. 8, issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive (AD) requiring aircraft inspections for MD-11 cargo planes following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/ups-plane-crash-death-toll-145049389.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:fatal crash in Kentucky;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fatal crash in Kentucky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the FAA, the directive was prompted by &#8220;an accident where the left-handed engine and pylon detached from the airplane before takeoff.&#8221; The directive comes as the FAA continues to determine the cause of the detachment, which led to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/ups-plane-crash-death-toll-145049389.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nov. 4 crash of a UPS;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nov. 4 crash of a UPS<\/a>\u00a0cargo flight in Louisville, where at least\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/ups-plane-crash-death-toll-145049389.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:14 people died;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14 people died<\/a>, including three crew members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The FAA decided to issue the AD because &#8220;the agency has determined the unsafe condition is likely to exist or develop in other products of the same type design.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The AD was sent to Boeing for its MD-11 and MD-11F airplanes, according to the FAA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2025\/11\/08\/faa-emergency-airworthiness-directive-md-11-planes\/87172023007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FAA orders inspections on all MD-11 planes after deadly Kentucky crash;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FAA orders inspections on all MD-11 planes after deadly Kentucky crash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Saturday, Nov. 8, issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive (AD) requiring aircraft inspections&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[10474,177608,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-558125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-fatal-crash","9":"tag-federal-aviation-administration","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}