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Airworthiness Directive results from reports of in-flight and ground fires on certain airplanes manufactured with insulation blankets covered with a specific polyethyleneteraphthalate (PET), ORCON Orcofilm AN-26 (all variants, including AN-26, AN-26A, and AN-26B), which may contribute to the spread of a fire when ignition occurs from sources such as electrical arcing.  We are issuing this Airworthiness Directive to ensure that insulation blankets constructed of AN-26 are removed from the fuselage.  Such insulation blankets could ignite and propagate a fire that is the result of electrical arcing or sparking.

David Villiers
Delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority

24 November 2008