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EASA grounds all the Falcon 7X airplanes of French Dassault

Cologne, Germany - Following the discovery of an anomaly in a copy of this model

EASA, European Aviation Safety Agency, yesterday issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive to ground all the Falcon 7X executive jets worldwide, for a total of 112 copies. The decision, in force from today, was taken as a precautionary measure following a problem encountered on an airplane of this model flying without passengers on board from Europe to Malaysia. According to EASA, this copy would...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1130194
Rome, Italy, 05/27/2011 12:42
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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