What was found
LEFT WING L/E SLAT NR 3 EXTERNAL SKIN HAS A GOUGE NEXT TO THE END. REMOVED DAMAGE AND EVALUATED, ORIGINAL .100 LOSS .024, REMAINING .076, AND FOUND TO BE OUT OF ALLOWABLE LIMITS IAW SRM 57-01. REPAIRED AREA IAW ERA 556444-14, REV O.
- Difficulty date
- August 31, 2017
- Submitted
- September 1, 2017
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N988DL
- Make and model
- Doug MD88
- Aircraft serial
- 53339
- Aircraft time
- 65,701 hours, 47,364 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5754 · Leading Edge Devices
- Part
- Skin
- Condition
- Gouged
- Location
- Lt Wing 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.