113 SDRs handled in November

The Flight Standard Department of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) reportedly collected, analyzed and handled 113 aircraft Service Difficulty Reports (SDR) sent by airlines in December 2007. Based on statistics of the SDR system provided by the CAAC, of the total SDRs sent, 90 were related to aircraft system/structure malfunction and 23 were attributed to other causes, such as bird strike, ground collision, weather or other incidents.