- Difficulty date
- January 18, 2007
- Submitted
- February 19, 2007
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Make and model
- Doug DC873
- Aircraft serial
- 46076
- Aircraft time
- 86,868 hours, 31,939 cycles
- Part
- Angle
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- T/E Flap
- Part time
- 86,868 hours, 31,939 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
FOUND LT INBD FLAP T/E ANGLE 1.500" CRACK STA XW 129.000. REMOVED CRACKED REINFORCING ANGLE IAW SRM 51-1-21. FABRICATED NEW REINFORCING ANGLE (AL2024"0" 0.050") IAW SRM 57-7-1 FIG 2 SHEET 1. HEAT TREATED FROM "0" TO AL2024T4 IAW SRM 51-1-1 PG 1-13-17. CLEANED, TREATED AND PRIMED IAW SRM 51-1-8B. INSTALLED NEW REINFORCING ANGLE IAW SRM 51-1-21.