# SDR 96UAL900567

- Type: Service difficulty report (as reported; unverified)
- Difficulty date: July 23, 1996
- Submitted: March 26, 2000
- Operation: Air carrier
- Aircraft: N7286U
- Make and model: Boeing 727222
- Aircraft serial: 21564
- Engine: Pwa JT8D15
- System (JASC): [2820 · Aircraft Fuel Distribution System](https://openairdocs.org/jasc/2820)
- Part: Fuel Vent Tube
- Part number: 69186127
- Condition: Cracked
- Location: Nr 1 Fuel Tank
- Stage of operation: CR
- Nature of condition: O
- Precautionary procedure: O
- FAA source: FAA Service Difficulty Reporting System (https://sdrs.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/sdr/96UAL900567

## Discrepancy

THE NR 1 FUEL QUANTITY GUAGE DECREASED BY 700 POUNDS WHILE CROSS FEEDING FROM NR 2, ALL CROSS FEEDS OPEN.  *S/D*  FOUND NR 1 FUEL VENT TUBE CRACKED AND IN PRELOAD.  REPLACED VENT TUBE, RECLAMPED AND RESHIMMED.

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