What was found
DURING A MAINTENANCE VISIT FOUND A CRACK TO THE UPPER STR SPLICE END BETWEEN STA XRS 408 AND 393, 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)
- 5320 · Fuselage Miscellaneous Structure
- Part
- Fitting
- 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.