Recommendations 2025
The table below sets out the recommendations issued by the BEA in 2025 with their status:
- (-) exchanges on-going
- (✓) file closed with an adequate response from the addressee
- (✗) file closed with an inadequate response from the addressee
To view the investigation report in which the recommendation was issued and to access the recommendation in its entirety, click on the reference number (first column).
Number | Status | Reg. | Title | Recommendations | Addressee | Date sent | Date response | Keywords |
_ | N15902 | Effective triggering of SAR phases based on flight plan | The DSNA ensure that the ANS-AG authorises flight plan activation by telephone with the BRIA before the aircraft actually takes off, and its closure after landing. | DSNA | 24/04/2025 |
| Air Navigation Services (ANS) | |
_ | F-CFFF | Securing L’Hotellier ball and socket connectors | EASA impose the locking of L’Hotellier connectors, notably by means of a locking pin, on aircraft using these connectors for critical parts such as the flight controls. | EASA | 25/04/2025 |
| Design / production / Manufacturing | |
_ | F-CFFF | Distribution of maintenance instructions | EASA, in coordination with L’Hotellier, ensure that the maintenance instructions contained in IMA 10.01 are effectively distributed to all type certificate holders using L'Hotellier connectors on their aircraft. | EASA | 25/04/2025 |
| Design / production / Manufacturing | |
_ | F-CFFF | Distribution of maintenance instructions | EASA raise awareness among type certificate holders of light aircraft about the need to monitor updates to maintenance information published by critical component suppliers. | EASA | 25/04/2025 |
| Design / production / Manufacturing | |
_ | F-OVRS | Airport meteorological service levels | The DGAC, in coordination with Météo-France, ensure that on the various airports in French Polynesia, an adequate meteorological service level is provided, in order that inter-island commercial flights are carried out safely and in accordance with requirements. | DGAC | 24/07/2025 |
| Aircraft / Equipment / Installations | |
_ | F-ORVS | Airport meteorological service levels | Pending the upgrading of the meteorological service on French Polynesia airports, the DAC ensure that crews who receive meteorological parameters from facilities not certified by Météo-France are fully informed that the values of this parameters have not been validated. | DAC PF | 24/07/2025 |
| Aircraft / Equipment / Installations | |
67BVN | Installation of stall strips on WT9s which are not so equipped | the DSAC make the implementation of Service Bulletin ZBWT9 31A / 2024 (Installation of safety equipment – stall strips) mandatory for all Dynamic WT9 microlights which are not so equipped. | DSAC | 22/08/2025 | Aircraft / Equipment | |||
67BVN | Request for special airworthiness conditions for “high-performance” Class 3 microlights | the DSAC impose, for newly designed Class 3 microlights, special airworthiness conditions regarding the microlight’s approach and stall behaviours. | DSAC | 22/08/2025 | Procedures / regulations |