# SDR DL72S021207

- Type: Service difficulty report (as reported; unverified)
- Difficulty date: October 16, 2002
- Submitted: October 22, 2002
- Operation: Air carrier
- Aircraft: [N516DA](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N516DA), registered now
- Make and model: Boeing 727232
- Aircraft serial: 21432
- Aircraft time: 69,595 hours, 52,579 cycles
- System (JASC): [5330 · Fuselage Main, Plate/Skin](https://openairdocs.org/jasc/5330)
- Part: Skin
- Part number: 655457416
- Condition: Cracked
- Location: S-4r,Fs481-681
- Stage of operation: IN
- Nature of condition: O
- Precautionary procedure: K
- FAA source: FAA Service Difficulty Reporting System (https://sdrs.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/sdr/DL72S021207

## Discrepancy

FUSELAGE / SKIN / FS 481-681 / STRG. 4R / SKIN LAP JOINT :  CRACK REPAIR                                                LFEC INSPECTION OF THE STRINGER 4R SKIN LAP JOINT REVEALED  CRACK INDICATIONS BETWEEN FS 481 & 681.  INTERNAL MFEC      INSPECTION REVEALED 8 CRACKS IN THE LOWER FASTENER ROW OF   THE LOWER SKIN PANEL ALONG THE PANEL LENGTH.  THE ENTIRE    LAP JOINT WAS CUTOUT FROM FS 481-681 AND REPAIRED WITH      AND EXTERNAL ALUMINUM DOUBLER PER ER/A 383969-14AD.

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