SEATTLE—Federal authorities have issued a warning about a part of the tail in the type of seaplane that crashed in Washington state’s Puget Sound last month, killing 10 people.
The Seattle Times reports that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency airworthiness directive concerning Otter seaplanes. Released Tuesday, the directive warned of potential cracks and corrosion in a part called the elevator, a movable surface of the horizontal tail that controls the plane’s pitch.
The newspaper reported the warning was not the result of the investigation into the Sept. 4 crash off Whidbey Island.
According to the directive, federal officials received “multiple recent reports” of cracks in the elevator….