What was found
CENTER LANDING GEAR WHEEL WELL RT UPPER FORWARD SPLICE JOINT FOUND CRACKED. SPLICE REMOVED AND REPLACED WITH WITH NEW SPLICE IAW SRM 51-33-01 REVISION 50. REPAIR CLASSIFIED AS MAJOR IAW GMM 6-2-100 REVISION 115.
- Difficulty date
- November 8, 2012
- Submitted
- November 30, 2012
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N588FE
- Make and model
- Doug MD11F
- Aircraft serial
- 48490
- Aircraft time
- 68,536 hours, 13,554 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5310 · Fuselage Main, Structure
- Part
- Splice
- Part number
- AEA71301
- 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.