What was found
DURING NDT INSPECTION A DISCREPANT AREA WAS FOUND ON FUSELAGE SKIN BETWEEN STA Y=200 TO 197 AND BETWEEN LONG 16 TO 18 RT. STR-ENG, CARD 8, ZONE 46. THIS REPAIR WAS PERFORMED BY THE ER/A 473065-14AD.
- Difficulty date
- May 14, 2015
- Submitted
- May 15, 2015
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N978DL
- Make and model
- Doug MD88
- Aircraft serial
- 53259
- Aircraft time
- 62,823 hours, 46,490 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5330 · Fuselage Main, Plate/Skin
- Part
- Skin
- Condition
- Damaged
- Location
- Bs 197-200
- Stage of operation
- IN
- How discovered
- 9
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- K
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