What was found
LOWER CENTER CARGO COMPARTMENT BILGE AREA AT STATION 5-123, LONGERON 49 LEFT SPLICE FITTING FOUND 1 INCH CRACKED.
- Difficulty date
- January 20, 2009
- Submitted
- January 21, 2009
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N603FE
- Make and model
- Doug MD11F
- Aircraft serial
- 48459
- Aircraft time
- 58,344 hours, 13,268 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5313 · Fuselage Main, Longeron/Stringer
- Part
- Longeron Splice
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Zone 100
- 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.