What was found
CENTER CARGO COMPARTMENT, LEFT TUNNEL AT STA 5-113 TO STA 1541, STR 40 LONGERON SPLICE FOUND CRACKED. CENTER CARGO COMPARTMENT, LONGERON SPLICE REMOVED AS PER SRM 51-31-01 VOL 2 AND REPLACED AS PER SRM 51-33-01 VOL 2.
- Difficulty date
- April 22, 2004
- Submitted
- May 10, 2004
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N601FE
- Make and model
- Doug MD11
- Aircraft serial
- 48401
- Aircraft time
- 42,327 hours, 10,353 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5320 · Fuselage Miscellaneous Structure
- Part
- Splice
- Part number
- A5A71141
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Fuselage
- Stage of operation
- IN
- How discovered
- V
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- K
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.