- Difficulty date
- November 15, 2014
- Submitted
- November 19, 2014
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Make and model
- Boeing 737824
- Aircraft serial
- 30577
- Aircraft time
- 46,983 hours, 16,561 cycles
- Part
- Skin
- Part number
- 141A6186
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- L1 Door
- 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
LEFT MAIN ENTRY DOOR UPPER AFT CORNER RIVET HAS QUARTER INCH CRACK RADIATING FROM IT, JUST BELOW UPPER GATE. VERIFIED CRACK WITH HFEC 737 PART6 51-00-00 PROC 9 QC 6239 & PROC 23. CUT OUT DAMAGED SKIN WPB U002378 VERIFIED CRACK REMOVAL NTM PT6 -51-00-00 PROCESS 23 WPB QC 92616 ACP REPAIR 2 IAW SRM 52-00-0 1 WPB U007715.