- Difficulty date
- January 30, 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
- Frame
- Condition
- Broken
- Location
- Lt Wing
- 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 WING CTR L/E UPPER INTERNAL FORMER BROKEN 1" STA XS 521.000. REMOVED FASTENERS IAW SRM 51-1-21. FABRICATED DOUBLER (AL7075"0" 0.063") IAW SRM 57-3-3 FIG 4. HEAT TREATED FROM 7075"0" TO 7075T6 IAW SRM 51-1-1 PG 1-13-17. CLEANED, TREATED AND PRIMED AREA AND DOUBLER IAW SRM 51-1-8B. INSTALLED DOUBLER IAW SRM 51-1-21, SRM 51-3-1.