# Airworthiness Directives; Airbus Model A300 Series Airplanes
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 1998-11-16 · Effective 1998-12-21 · 63 FR 63597
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-30167
- **Category:** airworthiness
- **Manufacturer:** Airbus Model A300 Series
- **Type:** Rule
- **Action:** Final rule.
- **Citation:** 63 FR 63597
- **Publication date:** 1998-11-16
- **Effective date:** 1998-12-21
- **FAA docket:** Docket No. 98-NM-234-AD
## Abstract

This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Airbus Model A300 series airplanes, that requires modification of the emergency evacuation slide/raft system. This amendment is prompted by issuance of mandatory continuing airworthiness information by a foreign civil airworthiness authority. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent the container release cable of the emergency evacuation slide/raft system from jamming, which could result in the inability to open the emergency exit doors or to correctly deploy the emergency evacuation slide/rafts, and consequent delay or impedance of passengers exiting the airplane during an emergency.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/11/16/98-30167/airworthiness-directives-airbus-model-a300-series-airplanes)
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