What was found
DURING HFEC INSPECTION ON THE LEFT WING TANK, CRACK WAS FOUND AT THE END OF STRINGER 13 (XORS 577) WITH APPROX 8" IN LENGTH. REPAIRED AS PER SRM 57-20-00 FIGURE 10 VOLUME I. REPAIR CLASSIFIED AS MAJOR PER GMM 6-2-100.
- Difficulty date
- January 8, 2007
- Submitted
- January 10, 2007
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N598FE
- Make and model
- Doug MD11F
- Aircraft serial
- 48597
- Aircraft time
- 48,114 hours, 7,528 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
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