B767 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 144.37; Flight Crew Total 8893.52; Flight Crew Type 1899.18
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Maintenance
General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
Passenger seated over left wing area advised crew with picture of possible damage to left forward wing area. After passengers deplaned; Captain and First Officer examined photo and over wing area and determined that there looked to be possible delamination of outboard left wing slat area. Captain called Maintenance in ZZZ and filed a report. Maintenance came out to inspect and found large area by left wing outboard slat had indeed delaminated and tore out areas of honeycomb structure. Pictures taken. Aircraft taken out of service per Maintenance Control.
B767 Captain reported the aircraft was removed from service after a passenger provided photographs of a wing slat delamination issue.