Article: Boeing 737 rudder changes will not be started until 2003.

Article: U.S. Airlines Ordered to Retrofit All Boeing 737's with ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  October 8, 2002 ;     671 words ... ... operators some $364 million. Boeing will provide new hardware and wiring free to 737 operators. Boeing and airline operators already ... The first plane with a new rudder system will be delivered in January ... schedule that begins next year. Boeing is providing wiring kits to ...

Article: New Rudder System Ordered for Boeing
AP Online;  October 7, 2002 ;     374 words ... ... requiring that airlines install new rudder control systems on Boeing 737s. Problems with the rudder are suspected in two fatal U ... the final requirement. In June, a Pittsburgh jury found a Boeing Co. supplier was mostly to blame for the 1994 crash, which ...

Article: FAA proposes to fit Boeing 737s with new rudder ...
Airline Industry Information;  November 14, 2001 ;     518 words ... ... INFORMATION-(C)1997-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The US Federal Aviation Administration has formally proposed that all Boeing 737 aircraft be fitted with a new rudder control system over a five-year period. The proposed order follows the recommendations ...

Article: FAA proposes 737 rudder system redesign.
Airline Industry Information;  October 6, 2000 ;     509 words ... ... term redesign of the Boeing 737 rudder system and undertake several short ... stated that whilst the Boeing 737's rudder system complies fully with all ... mandate for a redesign of the Boeing 737 rudder system is expected within a year ...

Article: FASTER FIX ON 737'S RUDDER SYSTEM URGED SAFETY ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  February 21, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Recent tests, Hall said, ``indicate that the current Boeing 737 rudder system does not provide the same level of safety as on similar ... with the level of safety on every other aircraft.'' Boeing spokeswoman Susan Bradley said the company is already ...

Article: 2 AIRLINES CHANGE RUDDER-SYSTEM ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  January 17, 1995 ;     590 words ... ... responding to procedures that Boeing Co. suggested last year to ... stepped up replacement of a 737 rudder-system part in which investigators ... Sunday editions. Last year, Boeing asked airlines to revise the ... control system used on all Boeing 737 jets is under federal study ...

Article: Safety Board Calls for Design Changes to Airbus Rudder ...
Air Safety Week;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... characteristic of the A300-600 rudder system design" (i.e., its sensitivity ... safety board has cast a shadow over the rudder system design, which may require the manufacturer ... officials, who apprehended that the rudder system might be exonerated, leaving AAMP ...