What was found
MD RT BS 1120 TENSION TIE AREA FOUND ONE FASTENER HOLE CRACK AT FWD CHANNEL LAYER APPROXIMATELY 1-8 IN LENGTH AT 1 O'CLOCK POSITION. TENSION TIE REPAIRED IAW SRM 53-40-30 FIG 201 REPAIR 1.
- Difficulty date
- November 9, 2013
- Submitted
- November 27, 2013
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N120UA
- Make and model
- Boeing 747422
- Aircraft serial
- 29166
- Aircraft time
- 59,645 hours, 6,899 cycles
- Engine
- Pwa PW4056
- System (JASC)
- 5320 · Fuselage Miscellaneous Structure
- Part
- Tension Tie
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Bs 1120
- Stage of operation
- IN
- How discovered
- V
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- K
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