- Difficulty date
- January 7, 2014
- Submitted
- January 13, 2014
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Make and model
- Boeing 737790
- Aircraft serial
- 30165
- Aircraft time
- 45,884 hours, 20,367 cycles
- Part
- Skin
- Part number
- 182A4001
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Horizontal Stab
- 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
RIGHT HORIZONTAL STABILIZER LOWER SURFACE HAS A CRACK. ACFT GROUNDED. PERFORMED HFEC INSPECTION ON RT HORIZONTAL STABILIZER LWR SURFACE WHERE MARKED IAW NDT MANUAL PART 6, 51-00-00, PROCEDURE 23. CRACK INDICATED AT APPROX 2 LONGERON STABILIZER LWR SKIN CRACKED. REPAIRED IAW SRM 55-10-01-2R-11, REPAIR 11.