What was found
CRACK FOUND DURING HFEC INSPECTION ON LT WING TANK AT THE END OF STRINGER 14. REPAIR CARRIED OUT AT LT WING TANK, END OF STRINGER 14 AS PER SRM 57-20-00 FIGURE 10 VOLUME I. REPAIR CLASSIFIED AS MAJOR AS PER GMM 6-2-100.
- Difficulty date
- September 25, 2006
- Submitted
- September 27, 2006
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N589FE
- Make and model
- Doug MD11
- Aircraft serial
- 48491
- Aircraft time
- 49,351 hours, 8,890 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5713 · Wing, Longeron/Stringer
- Part
- Stringer
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Zone 500
- Stage of operation
- IN
- How discovered
- E
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- K
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.