Service difficulty report · Skin · Casa C212CD

Difficulty date
April 14, 2010
Submitted
April 16, 2010
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N967BW
Make and model
Casa C212CD
Aircraft serial
304
Aircraft time
17,975 hours, 25,355 cycles
Engine
Garrtt TPE33110
Part
Skin
Condition
Cracked
Location
Center Wing
Stage of operation
IN
How discovered
E
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

DURING CENTER WING NDI DRIVEN BY THE REPETITIVE INSPECTION REQUIREMENT OF AD 2008-06-03 THROUGH THE INSP REQUIREMENTS OF AOL 212-018 REV2, EDDY CURRENT REVEALED A 50 PERCENT INDICATION AT STA YN=1037 BETWEEN LONGERONS 3 & 4. VISUAL INSP CONFIRMED AND REVEALED 2 MISSING RIVET HEADS & BUCKLED SKIN. INITIAL INSP REVEALED AN INDICATION OF DISCONTINUITIES AT LOCATION WING STA 1038 BETWEEN LONGERONS 3 & 4 AND (2) POPPED RIVET HEADS AT 1037 AFT OF LONGERON 6 AND FWD OF REAR WING SPAR. THESE INITIAL INDICATIONS OF DISCONTINUITIES, ALONG WITH PICTURES WERE SENT TO MFG FOR DETERMINATION OF EXTENT OF DAMAGE AND FOR A REPAIR SCHEME. MFG REQUESTED THAT ADDITIONAL NDT BE CONDUCTED TO VERIFY THE EDDY CURRENT. AFTER CLEAN AND PREP, IT WAS NOTED THE DISCONTINUITIES APPEARED TO BE TOOLING MARKS. DYE PENATRANT INSP OF THE SUSPECT AREA WITH ONLY NEGATIVE FINDINGS. MFG AGREES THAT THE INITIAL INDICATION OF DISCONTINUITIES WAS NOT AN INDICATION OF CRACK OR SKIN RIPPLING. MFG HAS AUTHORIZED THE RETURN OF THE ACFT TO SERVICE ONCE THE MISSING RIVETS WERE REPLACED WITH FASTENERS SPECIFIED IN DOC NT-2-ADC-10001. IAW AD2008-06-13 PARA (7). FSDO CONFIRMED THAT THIS ISSUE CAN BE CONSIDERED CLOSED, ALL REPETITIVE REQUIREMENTS OF AD2008-06-13 HAVE BEEN MET.