89-22-09: Passenger Door Evacuation
FAA order 89-22-09 is an airworthiness directive in force since November 20, 1989. The FAA's subject line: Passenger Door Evacuation. It names Construcciones Aeronauticas Sa C-212: about 16 aircraft on the U.S. register today, though an order usually covers particular versions or serial numbers rather than every one. System: emergency equipment.
What it applies to as the FAA lists it
- Kind of product
- Aircraft
- Makes
- EADS CASA
- Models
- C-212-CB, C-212-CC, C-212-CD, C-212-CE, C-212-CF, C-212-DE, C-212-DF
- On this site
- Construcciones Aeronauticas Sa C-212 16 registered
Dates and paperwork
- In force since
- November 20, 1989
- Docket
- 89-NM-111-AD
- Status
- Current
- The FAA's document
- Read the order on the FAA's site
The order itself the regulatory text, as published
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89-22-09 CASA: Amendment 39-6363. Docket No. 89-NM-111-AD. Applicability: Model C-212 series airplanes equipped with a passenger entry step installed under Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) SA906GL, certificated in any category.
Compliance: Required within 60 days after the effective date of this AD, unless previously accomplished.
To prevent delay in opening the passenger door in the event of an emergency evacuation, accomplish the following:
A. Remove the step, handrails, door latch modifications, and associated hardware installed in accordance with Fischer Brothers Aviation, Inc., Installation Instructions for FBD-206, Revision F, dated June 5, 1985.
B. Restore the door handle to the original CASA configuration.
C. An alternate means of compliance or adjustment of the compliance time, which provides an acceptable level of safety, may be used when approved by the Manager, Chicago Aircraft Certification Office, ACE-115C, FAA, Central Region.
NOTE:The request should be forwarded through an FAA Principal Maintenance Inspector (PMI), who will either concur or comment, and then send it to the Manager, Chicago Aircraft Certification Office, ACE-115C.
D. Special flight permits may be issued in accordance with FAR 21.197 and 21.199 to operate airplanes to a base in order to comply with the requirements of this AD.
The applicable service information may be examined at the FAA, Northwest Mountain Region, Transport Airplane Directorate, 17900 Pacific Highway South, Seattle, Washington, or the Chicago Aircraft Certification Office, 2300 East Devon Avenue, Des Plaines, Illinois.
This amendment (39-6363, AD 89-22-09) becomes effective November 20, 1989.
Source: FAA Dynamic Regulatory System, airworthiness directives. The FAA's document is the authority; the register counts are this site's, from the FAA register of November 6, 2026. Connections as data: /graph/directive/89-22-09.json · aircraft systems.