Regional Jet 900 (CRJ900)
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Time Pressure; Communication Breakdown; Troubleshooting
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Maintenance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General Flight Cancelled / Delayed; General Maintenance Action; General Release Refused / Aircraft Not Accepted
Procedure; Human Factors; Aircraft
On my preflight; I noticed a split in the aileron surface; Captain's side; outboard edge. I told the Captain and he called Maintenance. Maintenance downed the plane and about 5 hours later we got a rescue plane. On preflight; I found the same issue in the same spot. So now we have downed 2 airplanes at an outstation late at night. We ended up taking a plane out to ZZZ1. What this report is for is pressure to go from the company. The Captain was on all the calls so I'm not sure who said it. But once the second plane was spotted with damage; we were told 'The Captain is to do the preflight' and 'now that you recorded it; we have to address it'. Meaning I took a video of the damage to show maintenance. Aircraft X is the third plane we had. There was pressure to go but we did not take the first 2 planes due to the damage found. Someone at the company really wanted us to go which didn't sit right with us.
CRJ-900 First Officer reported that the Flight Crew refused two aircraft due to a split discovered in the surface of the Captain's side aileron.