Navigate / EASA
AMC M.A.202(a) Occurrence reporting

ED Decision 2023/013/R

Accountable persons or organisations should ensure that the type certificate (TC) holder or the declarant of a declaration of design compliance receives adequate reports of occurrences for that aircraft type, to enable it to issue appropriate service instructions and recommendations to all owners or operators.

Liaison with the TC holder or the declarant of a declaration of design compliance is recommended to establish whether published or proposed service information will resolve a problem or to obtain a solution to a particular problem.

An approved continuing airworthiness management or maintenance organisation should assign responsibility for co-ordinating action on airworthiness occurrences and for initiating any necessary further investigation and follow-up activity to a suitably qualified person with clearly defined authority and status.

In respect of maintenance, reporting a condition which endangers flight safety is normally limited to:

- serious cracks, permanent deformation, burning or serious corrosion of structure found during scheduled maintenance of the aircraft or component.

- failure of any emergency system during scheduled testing.