B727 CREW HAD A BROKEN SPOILER CABLE IN THE WHEEL WELL. A SPOILER MALFUNCTION WAS RPTED PRIOR TO DEP BY A MECH RIDING AS A PAX.

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UPON RECEIPT OF ACFT; PREVIOUS CAPT DESCRIBED A MECH ON GND IN ZZZ DID NOT SEE ALL SPOILERS DEPLOY ON LNDG. WITHOUT ANY WAY TO CONFIRM THIS WAS THE CASE; HE DID NOT ENTER A MALFUNCTION INTO THE ACFT LOGBOOKS; NOR WAS ANYTHING UNUSUAL FOUND ON PREFLT INSPECTION. FLT WAS CONDUCTED FROM ZZZ TO XXX WITHOUT INCIDENT. UPON ARR IN XXX; MAINT CTL PLACED THE ACFT ON AN INDEFINITE HOLD TO INSPECT THE FLT CTL SYS. UPON FURTHER INSPECTION; A BROKEN SPOILER CABLE WAS FOUND IN THE R WHEEL WELL OF THE ACFT. IN QUESTIONING OF THE XXX MECH WHO HAD FOUND THE BROKEN CABLE; IT WAS FOUND THE MECH WHO HAD ORIGINALLY RECOGNIZED THE MALFUNCTION IN ZZZ WAS RIDING IN THE CABIN OF SAID ACFT TO XXX WHEN HE NOTICED THE SPOILERS HAD NOT PROPERLY DEPLOYED UPON LNDG. UPON OUR DEP; HE NOTIFIED MAINT IN ZZZ OF THE SIT; WHERE IT WAS INSPECTED. ALTHOUGH THIS SIT WAS CORRECTED WITHOUT INCIDENT; IN DISCUSSIONS WITH THE CREW; IT WAS FELT THAT HAD THE MECH PRESENTED HIMSELF TO BOTH CAPTS (RELEASING AND ACCEPTING); THE ENTIRE SIT COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN UP AND RESOLVED IN ZZZ.