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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 198 / Monday, October 18, 2021 / Rules and Regulations FAA is issuing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.
DATES: This AD becomes effective November 2, 2021.
The Director of the Federal Register approved the incorporation by reference of a certain publication listed in this AD
as of November 2, 2021.
The FAA must receive comments on this AD by December 2, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments, using the procedures found in 14 CFR
11.43 and 11.45, by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Fax: 2024932251.
Mail: U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket Operations, M
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
Hand Delivery: Deliver to Mail address above between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
For material incorporated by reference IBR in this AD, contact EASA, KonradAdenauer-Ufer 3, 50668 Cologne, Germany; telephone +49 221 8999 000;
email ADs@easa.europa.eu; internet www.easa.europa.eu. You may find this IBR material on the EASA website at https ad.easa.europa.eu. You may view this material at the FAA, Airworthiness Products Section, Operational Safety Branch, 2200 South 216th St., Des Moines, WA. For information on the availability of this material at the FAA, call 2062313195.
It is also available in the AD docket at https www.regulations.gov by searching for and locating Docket No.
FAA20210876.

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Examining the AD Docket You may examine the AD docket at https www.regulations.gov by searching for and locating Docket No.
FAA20210876; or in person at Docket Operations between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The AD docket contains this AD, the mandatory continuing airworthiness information MCAI, any comments received, and other information. The street address for Docket Operations is listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Vladimir Ulyanov, Aerospace Engineer, Large Aircraft Section, FAA, International Validation Branch, 2200
South 216th St., Des Moines, WA 98198;
telephone and fax 2062313229; email vladimir.ulyanov@faa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Comments Invited The FAA invites you to send any written data, views, or arguments about this final rule. Send your comments to an address listed under ADDRESSES.
Include Docket No. FAA20210876;
Project Identifier MCAI202101031T
at the beginning of your comments. The most helpful comments reference a specific portion of the final rule, explain the reason for any recommended change, and include supporting data.
The FAA will consider all comments received by the closing date and may amend this final rule because of those comments.
Except for Confidential Business Information CBI as described in the following paragraph, and other information as described in 14 CFR
11.35, the FAA will post all comments received, without change, to https
www.regulations.gov, including any personal information you provide. The agency will also post a report summarizing each substantive verbal contact received about this final rule.
Confidential Business Information CBI is commercial or financial information that is both customarily and actually treated as private by its owner.
Under the Freedom of Information Act FOIA 5 U.S.C. 552, CBI is exempt from public disclosure. If your comments responsive to this AD contain commercial or financial information that is customarily treated as private, that you actually treat as private, and that is relevant or responsive to this AD, it is important that you clearly designate the submitted comments as CBI. Please mark each page of your submission containing CBI as PROPIN. The FAA
will treat such marked submissions as confidential under the FOIA, and they will not be placed in the public docket of this AD. Submissions containing CBI
should be sent to Vladimir Ulyanov, Aerospace Engineer, Large Aircraft Section, FAA, International Validation Branch, 2200 South 216th St., Des Moines, WA 98198; telephone and fax 2062313229; email vladimir.ulyanov@
faa.gov. Any commentary that the FAA
receives which is not specifically designated as CBI will be placed in the public docket for this rulemaking.
Background EASA, which is the Technical Agent for the Member States of the European Union, has issued EASA AD 20210210, dated September 16, 2021 EASA AD
20210210 also referred to as the MCAI, to correct an unsafe condition for all Airbus SAS Model A330841 and A330941 airplanes.

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This AD was prompted by a report of incorrect take-off computations for crosswinds above 20 knots in a certain AFM. The FAA is issuing this AD to address substantially reduced take-off performance in crosswind conditions above 20 knots, possibly resulting in a runway overrun, in the event of continued takeoff following an engine failure or a rejected takeoff, with consequent damage to the airplane and injury to occupants. See the MCAI for additional background information.
Related Service Information Under 1
CFR Part 51
EASA AD 20210210 specifies procedures for amending the existing AFM to include revised aircraft performance databases for performance calculations for crosswind above 20
knots. This material is reasonably available because the interested parties have access to it through their normal course of business or by the means identified in the ADDRESSES section.
FAAs Determination These products have been approved by EASA and are approved for operation in the United States. Pursuant to the FAAs bilateral agreement with the European Union, EASA has notified the FAA of the unsafe condition described in the MCAI described above. The FAA
is issuing this AD after determining that the unsafe condition described previously is likely to exist or develop on other products of these same type designs.
Requirements of This AD
This AD requires accomplishing the actions specified in EASA AD 2021
0210 described previously, except for any differences identified as exceptions in the regulatory text of this AD.
EASA AD 20210210 requires operators to inform all flight crews of revisions to the AFM, and thereafter to operate the aeroplane accordingly.
However, this AD would not specifically require those actions as those actions are already required by FAA regulations. FAA regulations require operators to furnish to pilots any changes to the AFM for example, 14
CFR 121.137, and to ensure that the pilots are familiar with the AFM for example, 14 CFR 91.505. As with any other flightcrew training requirement, training on the updated AFM content is tracked by the operators and recorded in each pilots training record, which is available for the FAA to review. FAA
regulations also require pilots to follow the procedures in the existing AFM
including all updates. 14 CFR 91.9
requires that any person operating a
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