What was found
CRACKED Z CHANNEL ON VERTICAL STABILIZER T/E BETWEEN ZRS 38.2 AND ZRS 57.7. Z-CHANNEL REPAIRED IAW SRM 55-01, FIG 2.
- Difficulty date
- February 7, 2015
- Submitted
- February 10, 2015
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N971DL
- Make and model
- Doug MD88
- Aircraft serial
- 53214
- Aircraft time
- 62,201 hours, 45,832 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5530 · Vertical Stabilizer
- Part
- Channel
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Vertical Stab
- 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.