Wednesday, 2 May 2018 ()
The Federal Aviation Administration said it's issuing a new airworthiness directive, or AD, in response to the engine failure that occurred on the fatal Southwest Flight 1380 two weeks ago. "We are issuing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products," the FAA said in a new AD scheduled to be released Wednesday. An AD is a rule passed down by the FAA to correct unsafe parts. This newest AD calls for both initial and repetitive inspections of fan blades in the same type of engine model,…