What was found
BS 1531, LONGERON 12R, DURING AN X RAY INSPECTION, A CRACK WAS FOUND ON FWD LONGERON. REPLACED THE LONGERON FROM BS 1511 TO 1531 IAW SRM 53-00-05-2R, FIG 201, REPAIR 1. CLASSIFIED AS A MAJOR REPAIR IAW GMM 6-2-100.
- Difficulty date
- February 23, 2017
- Submitted
- March 7, 2017
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N621FE
- Make and model
- Doug MD11F
- Aircraft serial
- 48792
- Aircraft time
- 55,169 hours, 13,692 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5313 · Fuselage Main, Longeron/Stringer
- Part
- Longeron
- Part number
- 7479503
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Bs 1531
- Stage of operation
- IN
- How discovered
- V
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- K
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