76-01-07 LOCKHEED-CALIFORNIA COMPANY: Amendment 39-2491. Applies to Lockheed-California Company Model L-1011-385 series airplanes certificated in all categories.
Compliance required within the next 300 hours' time in service after effective date of this AD, unless already accomplished:
To prevent possible emergency evacuation system hard container release cable assembly failures, accomplish the following:
(a) Inspect each slide, slide/raft evacuation system to determine if a modified cable assembly has been installed in accordance with Lockheed Alert Service Bulletin No. 093-25-A239, dated October 23, 1975, and Air Cruisers Company Service Bulletin 25-29, dated October 23, 1975, or later FAA-approved revisions or an FAA-approved equivalent modification approved by the Chief, Aircraft Engineering Division, FAA Western Region. Modified cable assemblies are identified by either blue or green paint on the parachute pin in the swaged area.
(b) Replace all unmodified cableassemblies located during the inspections required by paragraph (a) with a modified cable assembly in accordance with Air Cruisers Company Service Bulletin 25-29, dated October 23, 1975, and Lockheed Alert Service Bulletin No. 093-25-A239, dated October 23, 1975, or later FAA-approved revisions, or equivalent modifications approved by the Chief, Aircraft Engineering Division, FAA Western Region.
(c) Inspect each slide, slide/raft evacuation system hard container latching parts which interrelate with the hard container release cable parachute pins for burrs and/or sharp edges and replace or rework as necessary in accordance with Lockheed Alert Service Bulletin No. 093-25- A239, dated October 23, 1975, and Air Cruisers Company Service Bulletin No. 25-29, dated October 23, 1975, or later FAA-approved revisions or equivalent modifications approved by the Chief, Aircraft Engineering Division, FAA Western Region.
(d) Reidentify slide, slide/raft evacuation assemblies having modifiedcable assemblies which have been installed as required by paragraph (b), in accordance with Lockheed Alert Service Bulletin No. 093-25-A239 dated October 23, 1975, or later FAA-approved revisions, or equivalent means of reidentification approved by the Chief, Aircraft Engineering Division, FAA Western Region. This paragraph supersedes the reidentification requirement of paragraph (e), AD 75-03- 07.
This amendment becomes effective February 20, 1976.