- Difficulty date
- January 21, 2017
- Submitted
- January 23, 2017
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N989DL
- Make and model
- Doug MD88
- Aircraft serial
- 53341
- Aircraft time
- 64,095 hours, 46,189 cycles
- Part
- Spring
- Condition
- Broken
- Location
- Door
- 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.
What was found
AFT DOOR EMERGENCY RELEASE MECHANISM SPRING BROKEN. REINSTALLED NEW SPRING.
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