What was found
DURING OPEN HOLE HFEC INSPECTION ON LT SIDE BS 1140 TENSION TIE, FOUND ONE CRACK AT FWD CHANNEL, UPPER ROW FIRST FASTENER HOLE FROM OTBD. TENSION TIE FWD CHANNEL R & R AND ESTABLISHED MONITORING IAW SRM 53-40-30 REPAIR 2 PAGE 214 .
- Difficulty date
- December 23, 2012
- Submitted
- January 23, 2013
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N667US
- Make and model
- Boeing 747451
- Aircraft serial
- 24222
- Aircraft time
- 97,560 hours, 11,953 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5320 · Fuselage Miscellaneous Structure
- Part
- Channel
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Bs 1140
- Stage of operation
- IN
- How discovered
- 9
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- K
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