Service difficulty report · Skin · Doug DC982

Difficulty date
February 29, 2000
Submitted
July 11, 2000
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N953AS
Make and model
Doug DC982
Aircraft serial
49386
Part
Skin
Condition
Cracked
Location
Fuselage
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.

What was found

PHX - DURING 15K CHECK, THE FUSELAGE SKIN AT FS 1401 WAS FOUND CRACKED OUT OF FASTENER HOLE LENGTH .20 ABOVE NR 1 PYLON, THIRD FASTENER ABOVE SKIN SPLICE. REPAIRED CRACK PER SRM 53-04 USING TITANIUM 6AL-4V. (M)

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