- Difficulty date
- July 15, 2004
- Submitted
- August 2, 2004
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Make and model
- Doug DC873F
- Aircraft serial
- 46124
- Aircraft time
- 80,489 hours, 29,231 cycles
- Part
- Fitting
- Part number
- 4641324
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Fuselage
- Part time
- 80,489 hours, 29,231 cycles
- Stage of operation
- IN
- How discovered
- V
- 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 FUSELAGE AFT LONGERON SPLICE FITTING CRACKED 1.000 AT STA 1690.000, L30R (MAJOR REPAIR). PERFORMED MAJOR REPAIR IAW SRM 53-1-0 PG 1. REMOVED CRACKED FITTING IAW SRM 51-1-20D PG 21. CLEANED, TREATED AND PRIMED AREA IAW SRM 581-1-8B. INSTALLED NEW FITTING IAW SRM 51-1-20D PG 9.