HC Deb 03 February 2000 vol 343 cc659-60W
Mrs. Dunwoody

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many 737 aircraft have been inspected by independent inspectors. [108027]

Mr. Mullin

Civil Aviation Authority Surveyors inspect selected aircraft each year in accordance with a policy, and associated programme, published in Airworthiness Notice No. 30(CAA Aircraft Survey Programme—All United Kingdom Registered Aircraft). This survey programme is independent of the operators' inspections carried out as part of the scheduled maintenance programme.

In the year ending 1999, 77 Boeing 737 aircraft were surveyed by CAA.

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