# Airworthiness Directives; Boeing Model 777-200 Series Airplanes Equipped With Air Cruisers Evacuation Slide/Rafts
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 1998-09-17 · Effective 1998-10-22 · 63 FR 49659
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-24867
- **Category:** airworthiness
- **Manufacturer:** Boeing Model 777-200 Series
- **Type:** Rule
- **Action:** Final rule.
- **Citation:** 63 FR 49659
- **Publication date:** 1998-09-17
- **Effective date:** 1998-10-22
- **FAA docket:** Docket No. 97-NM-95-AD
## Abstract

This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 777-200 series airplanes, that requires modifying the sliding surface of the door 1 left and door 1 right evacuation slide/rafts. This amendment is prompted by a report of injuries to evacuees using the slide/raft to exit the airplane; the evacuees were unable to achieve adequate initial sliding speed and adequate momentum to carry them expeditiously down the slide/raft. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent evacuee overload of the slide/rafts, and consequent impeded evacuation and injury to the evacuees.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/09/17/98-24867/airworthiness-directives-boeing-model-777-200-series-airplanes-equipped-with-air-cruisers-evacuation)
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