SDR DL72S002285

Service difficulty report · Skin · Boeing 727232

Difficulty date: November 22, 2000
Submitted: November 30, 2000
Operation: Air carrier
Aircraft: N517DA
Make and model: Boeing 727232
Aircraft serial: 21433
Aircraft time: 65,484 hours, 49,978 cycles
System (JASC): 5330 · Fuselage Main, Plate/Skin
Part: Skin
Part number: 65545703
Condition: Cracked
Location: Fuselage
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

FUSELAGE / SKIN / FS 360-380 / STRG. 4R / SKIN LAP SPLICE : CRACK REPAIR. LFEC INSPECTIONS OF THE STRINGER 4R SKIN LAP SPLICE INDICATED A CRACK. INTERNAL MFEC INSPECTION OF THE SKIN LAP CONFIRMED A SINGLE CRACKED FASTENER HOLE IN THE LOWER FASTENER ROW OF THE LOWER SKIN BETWEEN FS 360 & 380. THE LAP JOINT WAS LOCALLY CUTOUT TO REMOVE THE CRACK AND REPAIRED WITH AN EXTERNAL ALUMINUM DOUBLER PER B727 SRM 53-30-3, FIG. 5 AND ER/A 379359-14AD.