Service difficulty report · Skin · Airbus A320232

Difficulty date
May 5, 2015
Submitted
May 6, 2015
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N494UA
Make and model
Airbus A320232
Aircraft serial
1840
Aircraft time
40,520 hours, 17,584 cycles
Engine
Iae V2527A5
Part
Skin
Condition
Cracked
Location
Fuselage
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

FUSELAGE SKIN FRAME 35 & CM10 THE LT AFT LOWER HOLE NR 2 HAS CRACK INDICATION 5:00 POSITION. REPAIRED NR 2 HOLE & INSTALLED FASTENER LT FRAME 35 IAW ECRA 53-30-04940 & THIS IS TEMP REPAIR. REPAIR OF CRACKED & ELONGATED FASTENER HOLE FRAME 35 BELOW STRINGER 30 LT HAS BEEN APPROVED AS INTERIM FOR 6 MONTHS IAW RDAS 8 0006388-003-2014 ISSUED NOV 7 2014. A NEW RDAS THAT PROVIDES INSPECTION THRESHOLD MUST BE REC PRIOR TO MAY 7 2014 IF NEW RDAS IS NOT RECEIVED PRIOR TO MAY 7 2015 THE ACFT IS NOT AIRWORTHY.

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