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the effective date of this Directive.
 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (Civil Aviation Regulations 1998), PART 39 - 105 CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY AUTHORITY
 SCHEDULE OF AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES

            This Amendment becomes effective on 7 September 2000.

            Background:  Boeing has advised of two incidents of electrical fire during fuelling of Boeing Model 737 aeroplanes. Investigation revealed that these incidents were due to a short circuit and overheating of a transient suppression diode.

            The original issue of this Directive was intended to prevent the short circuit and overheating from occurring. Those conditions, if not corrected, could result in electrical arcing and ignition of fuel vapours at the refuelling receptacle for the fuel tanks, together with the possibility of fire during fuelling.

            This amendment introduces an AMOC which allowed a revised SB to be utilised.

            The original issue of this Airworthiness Directive became effective on 24 February 2000.

 Eugene Paul Holzapfel
 Delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority 27 July 2000

 The above AD is notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 9 August 2000.