What was found
LT ENG FAILED TO START. FOUND THE AFT END CAP OF STARTER MOTOR COMPLETELY SEPARATED FROM STARTER MOTOR HSG, CRACKED 360 DEGREES AROUND CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE MOTOR HSG.
- Difficulty date
- August 12, 2009
- Submitted
- August 12, 2009
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N684JJ
- Make and model
- Piper PA31350
- Aircraft serial
- 317952194
- Aircraft time
- 15,258 hours, 1,500 cycles
- Engine
- Lyc TIO540J2BD
- Engine time
- 670 hours, 1,000 cycles
- Propeller
- Hartzl HCE3YR2A
- System (JASC)
- 8011 · Engine Starter
- Part
- Starter
- Part number
- 31B23592
- Part serial
- 400629
- Condition
- Broken
- Location
- Lt Engine
- Part time
- 670 hours, 1,000 cycles
- Stage of operation
- TX
- How discovered
- O
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- E
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.