What was found
SPOILER ISSUE, FLIGHT DIVERTED. THIS SPOILER FLOATING WAS CONFIRMED BY A FURLOUGHED UAL PILOT. FOUND RT STRUT TRUNNION GEAR DOOR MISSING ATTACH HARDWARE ALLOWING AIRFLOW UNDER NR 8 SPOILER. INSTALLED MISSING HARDWARE.
- Difficulty date
- June 19, 2011
- Submitted
- July 14, 2011
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N563UA
- Make and model
- Boeing 757222
- Aircraft serial
- 26665
- Aircraft time
- 62,134 hours, 22,885 cycles
- Engine
- Pwa PW2037
- System (JASC)
- 5755 · Spoilers
- Part
- Strut
- Condition
- Damaged
- Location
- Spoiler
- Stage of operation
- CR
- How discovered
- O
- Nature of condition
- E
- Precautionary procedure
- A
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.