What was found
CTR CARGO BILGE AREA LONGERON 43L SPLICE AT STA 1531 SUSPECT CRACKED. CTR CARGO BILGE AREA LONGERON 43L SPLICE AT STA 1531 REMOVED & REPLACED AS PER SRM 51-33- 01 VOL.II. THIS REPAIR CLASSIFIED AS MAJOR AS PER FEDEX GMM 6-2-100.
- Difficulty date
- March 12, 2007
- Submitted
- March 13, 2007
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N597FE
- Make and model
- Doug MD11
- Aircraft serial
- 48596
- Aircraft time
- 49,762 hours, 7,839 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5313 · Fuselage Main, Longeron/Stringer
- Part
- Longeron
- 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.