What was found
CRACK AND ELONGATED HOLE AT LOWER LT CORNER OF FS 1338 VENTRAL DOOR LOWER JAMB. AREA WAS REPAIRED IAW SRM 53-05, FIG 34. MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENTS: PERFORM REPETITIVE VISUAL INSPECTION OF BLIND FASTENERS EVERY 8000 CYCLES.
- Difficulty date
- November 1, 2015
- Submitted
- November 11, 2015
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N986DL
- Make and model
- Doug MD88
- Aircraft serial
- 53313
- Aircraft time
- 62,489 hours, 45,344 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5310 · Fuselage Main, Structure
- Part
- Door Frame
- Condition
- Cracked
- Stage of operation
- IN
- How discovered
- 9
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- K
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