What was found
DURING CHECK-C FOUND ON THE FWD LT FUSELAGE ALL BLIND FASTENERS IN A LARGE REPAIR AT STA 218, LONGERON 18L TO 19L. REMOVED EXISTING REPAIR. CUTOUT DAMAGED SKIN AND INSTALLED FILLER AND DOUBLER PER SRM 53-04, FIG 12B, SHEET 34.
- Difficulty date
- December 18, 2002
- Submitted
- December 31, 2002
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N983TW
- Make and model
- Doug DC983
- Aircraft serial
- 53633
- Aircraft time
- 8,353 hours, 4,612 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5330 · Fuselage Main, Plate/Skin
- Part
- Skin
- Condition
- Damaged
- 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.