Service difficulty report · Bleed Valve · Airbus A310

Difficulty date
May 11, 2008
Submitted
May 19, 2008
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N450FE
Make and model
Airbus A310
Aircraft serial
162
Aircraft time
38,889 hours, 27,821 cycles
Part
Bleed Valve
Condition
Faulted
Location
Nr 2
Stage of operation
CR
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
J
Precautionary procedure
E

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

What was found

AT FL 370 BLEED VALVE NR 2 FAULTED. TURNED IT OFF AND OPENED BLEED CROSS FEED. APPROX 1 MIN LATER BLEED VALVE NR 1 FAULTED. TURNED IT OFF, TRIED RESETTING AND WOULD NOT RESET. DURING DESCENT, NR 1 BLEED VALVE DID RESET. BY 10,000 BOTH BLEED VALVES RESET AND WORKED NORMALLY. CHECKED PNEUMATIC CONTROL SYSTEM IN REF TO AMM 21-31-00-5-01. NO FAULTS WHEN BITE CHECKING EITHER PNEUMATIC SYSTEM CONTROLLER. ALSO, AFTER DOING CHECKS ON MAINT PANEL NO FAULTS WERE NOTED AND ALL SYSTEMS CHECKED AS WORKING NORMALLY.

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