Service difficulty report · Tension Tie · Boeing 7472D7B

Difficulty date
July 15, 2011
Submitted
August 10, 2011
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N524MC
Make and model
Boeing 7472D7B
Aircraft serial
21784
Aircraft time
105,635 hours, 21,872 cycles
Part
Tension Tie
Condition
Cracked
Location
Bs 940
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.

What was found

THE PURPOSE OF THIS EO IS TO DOCUMENT A MAJOR REPAIR THAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED DURING C4/A6 CHECK. DURING INSPECTION OF DATUM ACFT IAW EO 4753B328, CRACK WAS FOUND ON AT BS 940 LT SIDE TENSION TIE STR - 8L AFT CHANNEL AT HOLE NR 20 (FIGURE 1) (CRACK LENGHT WAS 0.040" AND RUNNING UPWARD AT 11 O'CLOCK). (THE DAMAGED TENSION TIE WAS REPAIRED IAW WORK STEP 32D OF PART 1 OF EO 4753B328. IAW WORK STEP 32D OF PART 1 OF THE EO, THE TENSION TIE CRACKS THAT CANNOT BE REMOVED BY DOING THE OVERSIZE HOLE REPAIR, SHOULD BE REPAIRED AS GIVEN IN SRM 53-10-11, FIG 2.)

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