What was found
CRACKED FITTING OF LONGERON 17 AT LT CENTER FUEL TANK. NEW FITTING WAS DRILLED IAW SRM 51-10-4. FITTING WAS REPLACED AND WILL BE INSTALLED WITH CARD 123, ZONE 10.
- Difficulty date
- January 28, 2016
- Submitted
- January 29, 2016
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N996DL
- Make and model
- Doug MD88
- Aircraft serial
- 53363
- Aircraft time
- 63,168 hours, 45,421 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5310 · Fuselage Main, Structure
- Part
- Fitting
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Longeron 17l
- Stage of operation
- IN
- How discovered
- 9
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- K
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.