What was found
DURING A MAINTENANCE VISIT FOUND A CRACK TO THE LWR STR CLIP BETWEEN STRINGERS 62 & 63 ON THE LT UPPER WING NR 1 ALT THRU ACCESS HOLE 505A AND THRU MID SPAR ACCESS HOLE 560A AT STA XW 485, DAMAGE EXCEEDED LIMITATIONS IAW DC-8 SRM.
- Difficulty date
- September 29, 2000
- Submitted
- October 11, 2000
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N500MH
- Make and model
- Doug DC871F
- Aircraft serial
- 45812
- Aircraft time
- 81,506 hours, 32,675 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5713 · Wing, Longeron/Stringer
- Part
- Stringer Clip
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Lt Wing
- 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.