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not show the correct inspection areas.  In addition to the existing procedure, the area at the kink in the bottom fuselage skin, the actual chine line, must be inspected.  Investigation revealed that a number of aircraft have already passed the relevant inspection thresholds by a considerable margin.  As a result, it may be possible that cracks have developed and remained undetected.  This condition, if not corrected, could result in failure of the fuselage bottom skin.

             Amendment 1 is issued in response a revision of the related CAA-NL AD, which introduces additional eddy-current inspections.

David Villiers
Delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority

12 October 2006