What was found
CRACKS FOUND ON THE LT WING SLAT PANELS 4 & 3 BOTH AT CENTER HINGES. THE SLAT PANELS WERE REPLACED.
- Difficulty date
- July 25, 2017
- Submitted
- July 26, 2017
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N911DL
- Make and model
- Doug MD88
- Aircraft serial
- 49542
- Aircraft time
- 76,124 hours, 58,812 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5754 · Leading Edge Devices
- Part
- Panel
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Lt Wing Le Slat
- 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.