- Difficulty date
- February 6, 2009
- Submitted
- February 10, 2009
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Make and model
- Boeing 75728A
- Aircraft serial
- 24260
- Aircraft time
- 59,147 hours, 19,085 cycles
- Part
- Skin
- 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.
What was found
LOWER FUSELAGE SKIN, DENT AT BS 1395 BL 0. CHECKED LIMITS IAW SRM 53-00-01 FIG 101 DETAIL LLL FOUND TO BE WITHIN LIMIT DEPTH=.016" WIDTH=0.69" LENGTH=0.75" A/Y RATIO=43. NDT CHECKED FOUND CRACK 0.075". REPAIRED CRACK IAW SRM 53-00-01 REPAIR 16 FIG 201 PAGE 201. THIS REPAIR IS CATEGORY "B" MAJOR REPAIR.