What was found
ONE CRACK FOUND IN THE TENSION TIE FORWARD CHANNEL AT BS 1160, CRACK LENGTH IS ABOUT 2MM. THE TENSION TIE FORWARD CHANNEL REPAIRED IAW SRM 53-40-30, REPAIR 2, FIG 201.
- Difficulty date
- March 14, 2013
- Submitted
- March 18, 2013
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N665US
- Make and model
- Boeing 747451
- Aircraft serial
- 23820
- Aircraft time
- 99,326 hours, 12,362 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5320 · Fuselage Miscellaneous Structure
- Part
- Channel
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Bs 1160
- Stage of operation
- IN
- How discovered
- V
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- K
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