What was found
DURING A CHECK OF TAILCONE RELEASE SYS, MX FOUND THE LOCKPIN LEVER AND LATCH LEVER WERE WORN BEYOND ALLOWABLE LIMITS. MX REPLACED THE TAILCONE LOCK SYS. THE RII COMPLETED FOLLOWING MX.
- Difficulty date
- July 7, 2013
- Submitted
- July 11, 2013
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N951DL
- Make and model
- Doug MD88
- Aircraft serial
- 49882
- Aircraft time
- 61,741 hours, 45,985 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5350 · Aerodynamic Fairings
- Part
- Lever
- Condition
- Worn
- Location
- Tailcone
- 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.