What was found
CENTER CARGO COMPARTMENT AT STA 5-113 TO 1542 LONGERON 34L SPLICE FITTING FOUND CRACKED. REMOVED AND REPLACED WITH NEW FABRICATED SPLICE FITTING AND INSTALLED AS PER SRM 51-33-01 VOL II.
- Difficulty date
- August 29, 2004
- Submitted
- August 30, 2004
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N593FE
- Make and model
- Doug MD11
- Aircraft serial
- 48551
- Aircraft time
- 39,697 hours, 6,814 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5320 · Fuselage Miscellaneous Structure
- Part
- Splice
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Zone 100
- 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.