# SDR SWAA2024052983822

- Type: Service difficulty report (as reported; unverified)
- Difficulty date: May 8, 2024
- Submitted: May 29, 2024
- Operation: Air carrier
- Aircraft: [N7869A](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N7869A), registered now
- Make and model: Boeing 737-79P
- Registry model: [Boeing 737-79P](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-79p) (OpenAirDocs)
- Aircraft serial: 29365
- Aircraft time: 52,194 hours, 35,899 cycles
- System (JASC): [5511 · Horizontal Stabilizer, Spar/Rib](https://openairdocs.org/jasc/5511)
- Part: Rib
- Part number: UNKNOWN
- Condition: Cracked
- Location: Horizontal Stab
- Stage of operation: IN
- How discovered: 9
- Nature of condition: O
- Precautionary procedure: K
- FAA source: FAA Service Difficulty Reporting System (https://sdrs.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/sdr/SWAA2024052983822

## Discrepancy

RIGHT HORIZONTAL STAB RIB AT STAB STA. 120.30 LOWER FLANGE AT 4TH STIFFENER CRACKED.   ACCOMPLISHED HFEC SURFACE SCAN OF SUSPECTED CRACKED AREA IAW NDTM PART 6 CHAPTER 51-00-00 PROCEDURE 23.   MEASURED L 0.5'.  ACCOMPLISHED HFEC INSPECTION OF OPEN HOLES OUTSIDE OF DAMAGED AREA IAW NDTM PART 6 CHAPTER 51-00-00 PROCEDURE 16. NO CRACKS NOTED.  REPAIRED THE STIFFENER IAW SRM 55-10-09-2R-5.

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