What was found
AIRCRAFT WAS IN BASE MAINTENANCE. LEFT WING GROUND SPOILER CASTING CRACKED INNER WING UPPER TRAILING EDGE AT WING STATION 95. REMOVED AND REPLACED SPOILER FITTING IAW SRM 51-30-02, SRM 51-30-05 AND AMM 27--62-01.
- Difficulty date
- April 7, 2017
- Submitted
- April 11, 2017
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N962TW
- Make and model
- Doug MD83
- Aircraft serial
- 53612
- Aircraft time
- 49,675 hours, 24,516 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5755 · Spoilers
- Part
- Fitting
- Part number
- 5936832509
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Lt Spoiler
- 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.