# SDR AWXA200400499

- Type: Service difficulty report (as reported; unverified)
- Difficulty date: April 9, 2004
- Submitted: May 11, 2004
- Operation: Air carrier
- Aircraft: [N313AW](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N313AW), registered now
- Make and model: Boeing 737-3S3
- Registry model: [Boeing 737-3S3](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-3s3) (OpenAirDocs)
- Aircraft serial: 23712
- Aircraft time: 55,862 hours, 34,921 cycles
- System (JASC): [5330 · Fuselage Main, Plate/Skin](https://openairdocs.org/jasc/5330)
- Part: Skin
- Part number: 65457788
- Condition: Cracked
- Location: Fuselage
- Stage of operation: IN
- How discovered: V
- Nature of condition: O
- Precautionary procedure: K
- FAA source: FAA Service Difficulty Reporting System (https://sdrs.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/sdr/AWXA200400499

## Discrepancy

MCN - MAJOR REPAIR, DURING C-17 CHECK A .2500 CRACK WAS FOUND AT FASTENER HOLE IN FUSELAGE SKIN AT LOWER FORWARD CORNER OF R-2 DOOR CUTOUT BS 981.8 TO BS 984.8, WL 198.  MAINTENANCE STOP DRILLED CRACK AND PERFORMED A HFEC INSPECTION TO VERIFY CRACK WAS CONTAINED;  FABRICATED AN INNER, MIDDLE, AND OUTER DOUBLERS; INSTALLED FREEZE PLUG IN STOP DRILL HOLE, INSTALLED DOUBLERS IAW  SRM 53-60-01, FIG. 203, AND E.R. 03-5300-04128-HFIA.

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