Service difficulty report · Coalescer Bag · Boeing 727100

Difficulty date
February 14, 2003
Submitted
February 17, 2003
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N107FE
Make and model
Boeing 727100
Aircraft serial
19202
Aircraft time
52,547 hours, 38,696 cycles
Part
Coalescer Bag
Part number
22D10
Condition
Contaminated
Location
Zone 100
Stage of operation
CL
How discovered
C
Nature of condition
B
Precautionary procedure
A

As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.

What was found

AFTER GEAR RETRACTION, CREW BECAME AWARE OF AN ACRID ODOR WHICH INTENSIFIED. INITIAL ODOR WAS OF BURNING RUBBER OR A SMOLDERING WIRE BUNDLE. CREW WENT ON OXYGEN AND RETURNED TO IND. PERFORMED FIRE, SMOKE, FUMES AND ODOR CHECKLIST. REPLACED BOTH WATER SEPARATOR SOCKS. FOUND LT SOCK EXTREMELY DIRTY AND SMELLED OF DE-ICE FLUID. CHECKED ACM OIL LEVELS, FOUND NORMAL. RAN ALL 3 ENGINES IAW JRH. RUN WAS NORMAL. NO ODOR PRESENT. REF. M/M 21-51-032.

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