Jay Honeck wrote:

Is there some over-riding political reason the FAA doesn't want to offend
the Europeans right now?

I doubt it. As you said, once they were able to duplicate the rudder problem
with the 737, "the fix was pretty urgent."

The FAA doesn't issue an AD unless someone has proposed a fix. Apparently nobody
has come up with a fix for the Airbus problem, so there's no AD yet. I expect
that the FAA feels that there is insufficient cause to ground the entire Airbus
fleet over this. Michelle is probably correct that they will not take that step
unless somebody is killed in one of these incidents.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.