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WASHINGTON — Five Southwest Airlines planes grounded last month because they had not been properly inspected had precisely the kind of cracks that the inspection order was intended to detect, an official of the agency testified Thursday to a Senate subcommittee.
The inspection order covered older planes.
Half of the A380s affected by the inspection order are operated by Singapore Airlines, which took delivery of the first superjumbo in late 2007.
He also said investigators had examined a cable and clamps that controlled the plane's pitch and that were the subject of a Federal Aviation Administration inspection order issued this month for that model of aircraft.
The inspection order follows the discovery of cracks in two different places on some wing brackets, which Airbus said it had traced to a bracket installation process that has since been modified.
An F.A.A. official involved in the investigation, who asked not to be identified because the agency had not taken a formal position, said it was too soon to know whether the agency's inspection order would have detected bad riveting.
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