Service difficulty report · Skin · Boeing 737790

Difficulty date
April 5, 2012
Submitted
February 19, 2014
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N626AS
Make and model
Boeing 737790
Aircraft serial
30793
Aircraft time
38,570 hours, 17,052 cycles
Part
Skin
Part number
141A61851
Condition
Damaged
Location
Bs 312-322
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

L1 DOOR SKIN AT LOWER HINGE CUTOUT FWD LOWER CORNER, FUSELAGE SKIN LOWER HINGE CUTOUT AFT UPPER CORNER AND AFT LOWER CORNER. ACFT GROUNDED. AREA ON FUSELAGE SKIN WORKED IAW EA NR 700-53 EA-12103, REV: NEW, DATE: 02/10/2014 IAW REO-G17189, REV: IR, DATE: 02/07/2014. DOOR SKIN REPAIRED IAW SRM 52-10-01-2R, REPAIR 5. NO FURTHER INSPECTIONS REQUIRED ON FUSELAGE SKIN. INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS FOR DOOR REPAIR ARE INTIAL INSPECTION THRESHOLD OF 50,000 TOTAL DOOR FLIGHT CYCLES WITH REPEAT INSPECTION OF 3000 DOOR FLIGHT CYCLES BY LFEC IAW NDT MM 51-00-26. DOOR SKIN REPAIR IS A CATEGORY B, REPAIR.