nonairworthy

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adjective

Not meeting the standards for safe flight; unsafe for use in flight.

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Meanings

adjectivenonairworthy (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot meeting the standards for safe flight; unsafe for use in flight.

    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
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    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

    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

    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
  2. not comparableUnrelated 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
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    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

Origin

From non- + airworthy.

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