United Parcel Service

March 28, 2012 US Department of Transportation Docket Operations M-30, West Building Ground Floor Room W12-140 1200 New Jersey Ave, SE Washington, DC 20590 Ref: Airbus SB A300-57-6106 R03 Dated Jan. 26, 2012 Airbus SB A300-57-6107 R00 Dated Aug. 8, 2007 In response to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Directorate Identifier 2011-NM-001-AD, Dated February 28, 2012, United Parcel Service would like to comment on the following: 1. Airbus has issued revision 3 of Service Bulletin A300-57-6106 which provides a new repair drawing R57240425 which supersedes repair drawing R57240221. UPS believes that the new AD should reflect revision 03 of service bulletin A300-57-6106, Dated January 26, 2012. 2. Paragraph (k), of the NPRM, provides terminating action to AD 2007-03-18 by doing the inspections called out in paragraph (g). UPS believes that terminating action should for both the repetitive inspections in the forth coming AD and AD 2007-03-18 should be paragraph (j). 3. UPS also believes that replacement of the bushings per Airbus A300-57-6106 R3, Dated January 26, 2012 should also be terminating action for this forth coming AD (NPRM Directorate Identifier 2011-NM-001-AD, Dated February 28, 2012) and the forth coming AD (NPRM Directorate Identifier 2010-NM-269-AD, Dated November 8, 2011). If you have any questions regarding these comments, please contact me at (502) 329-6105 or e-mail air1mdw@ups.com. Sincerely, Mark Westman