Airplane manufacturer issues correction for illustration.

Publication: Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, Massachusetts) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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COPYRIGHT 2005 Cape Cod Times

Byline: Emily C. Dooley

Dec. 18--Just eight months after the Federal Aviation Administration announced a completed review of maintenance manuals for Beechcraft 1900s, the plane's manufacturer has issued a correction because of a backward illustration.

This is the latest in a series of manual revisions that Raytheon Aircraft Company has issued since two Beechcraft 1900Ds crashed in Charlotte and on Cape Cod in 2003, killing 23 people.

In both crashes, errors were found in Raytheon's maintenance manuals during the crash investigation. And in the Cape Cod case, a backward illustration was cited as a factor in the crash.

In November, Raytheon sent out a safety notice explaining that an illustration in the maintenance manual for installing a rudder trim forward cable was backward.

The rudder...

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