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of the initial Directive and Amendment 1 remains unchanged by this issue.

            This Amendment becomes effective on 15 June 2000.

            Background:  During a maintenance inspection/overhaul process on the MLG sliding tubes, a wrongly performed NDT inspection could have led to local heating, which as a consequence, could initiate cracks. Such cracking could lead to landing gear collapse.

            Amendment 1 is issued in response to a new DGAC AD which introduces on-going repetitive inspections for the main landing gear sliding tubes.

            Amendment 2 provides for landing gear tubes which either have:

                * not had the NDT process which may have caused damage carried out, or

                * had a NDT carried out using a procedure approved subsequent to the discovery that the initial procedure may be damaging.

            Amendment 1 of this Airworthiness Directive became effective on 30 December 1999.

            The original issue of this Airworthiness Directive became effective on 12 August 1999.

 Bernard Malcolm Hole
 Delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority 8 May 2000

 The above AD is notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 17 May 2000.