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optional terminating action.
             This Airworthiness Directive becomes effective on 23 June 2008.
Background:  The ANAC has received reports of damage of pins and elastomeric inserts in the hermetically sealed connectors of the electric fuel pumps on EMB-145(  ) aircraft models.  The damage of the pins is shown by partially blackened portions, or charring of the elastomeric insert, adjacent to and surrounding the pin.  This damage can lead to a failure in the electrical connectors, possibly due to heat generated by degraded spring-tension of the mating connector's female, which may cause arcing between poles.

             This Directive requires the repetitive inspections and, if necessary, replacement of affected fuel pumps.  The Directive also provides an optional terminating action to the repetitive inspections.

James Coyne
Delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority

16 June 2008