B1900D rear spar cracks

[sir.pratt]

just had an emergency AD come in tonight - all B1900D's are to be inspected within 72 hours for serious cracking on the rear spar, just outboard of the nacelle. Any ideas where it originated? 2 aircraft apparantly had 17500hrs on them when cracks were found.

[DubTrub]

Link to more details, AD text and photos of affected areas here (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=241679).

[sir.pratt]

Link to more details, AD text and photos of affected areas here (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=241679).

yeah seen all that - done the inspections. was just interested to know where it originated.

[DubTrub]

From the FAA (http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAD.nsf/0/604DD8020CB58DD7862571DB0054ED75?OpenDocument), but I don't know what aircraft / incident / inspection / etc was the origin of the AD.

[NutLoose]

In case you do not know, I use the Avantext system for my Biweekly Ad's updates on DVD.

However Avantext do provide a free email service ( to anyone, user of their system or not) that emails you a short description of all the latest AD's issued every morning and links to read the full AD.:ok:

You can simply register for the free service here.

http://www.avantext.com/ads_signup.aspx

or you can check all Ad's released over the last 6 weeks here

http://www.avantext.com/ads_detaillist.aspx?&release=all

the one you are discussing is available here

http://www.avantext.com/media/files/ADs/PL20061851.pdf


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