What was found
CO-PILOTS SEAT LOCK CONTROL ASSEMBLY WOULD NOT RELEASE SEAT LOCK PIN. MAINTENANCE FOUND THE RIGHT LOCK PIN CABLE BROKEN. REPLACED CONTROL ASSEMBLY PN161102105. THIS HAS BEEN A REOCCURRING PROBLEM ON NEW SEATS.
- Difficulty date
- January 24, 2001
- Submitted
- March 23, 2001
- Operation
- General aviation
- Aircraft
- N494SP
- Make and model
- Cessna 172S
- Aircraft serial
- 172S8035
- System (JASC)
- 2510 · Flight Compartment Equipment
- Part
- Control Unit
- Part number
- 161102105
- Condition
- Broken
- Location
- Copilot Seat
- Part time
- 981 hours
- Stage of operation
- IN
- How discovered
- V
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- K
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