nonairworthy en · ADJ
Etymology
From non- + airworthy.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not meeting the standards for safe flight; unsafe for use in flight.
Observers do not intervene unless there is an imminent safety issue or if an aircraft would be flown in a nonairworthy condition.
2017, Steven James Landry, Handbook of Human Factors in Air Transportation Systems, page 83:By order of the Administrator, this aircraft is declared nonairworthy and is hereby grounded.
2000, Peter Fusco, Moondog's Academy of the Air and Other Disasters, page 117:We had a perfectly good airplane with a nonairworthy, nonrepairable engine.
2023, Neal V. Loving, Loving's Love: A Black American's Experience in Aviation:Ideal ornamentation for his den wall is a real (but nonairworthy) wooden propeller.
1966 December, Patricia Demarest, “Presents for Pilots”, in Flying Magazine, volume 79, number 6, page 69:
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(not-comparable) Unrelated to airworthiness.
Construction is basically of actual helicopter nonairworthy components with only the minimum electrical system installed as necessary for the operation of the hydraulic and control system .
1986, United States. Department of the Army, Index and Description of Army Training Devices, pages 3-22:Reginald Buffet, who served for a time as respondent's superintendent of maintenance, testified that all airworthy items were written in the log, and only nonairworthy items were submitted on a separate piece of paper. He cited as an example of a nonairworthy item the extension of a reclining seat (transcript 552, 553) .
1962, United States. Civil Aeronautics Board, Economic Decisions of the Civil Aeronautics Board, page 1052: