What was found
WHILE TROUBLESHOOTING ROUGH RUNNING ENGINE ON MORNING RUNUP, ENGINE CASE FOUND WITH LARGE CRACK UNDER THE NR 2 CYLINDER, ENGINE REMOVED FROM SERVICE.
- Difficulty date
- October 1, 2013
- Submitted
- October 1, 2013
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N80KM
- Make and model
- Bnorm BN2A
- Aircraft serial
- 80
- Aircraft time
- 21,000 hours, 21,000 cycles
- Engine
- Lyc O540E4C5
- Engine time
- 10,892 hours, 1,229 cycles
- Propeller
- Hartzl HCC2YK2
- System (JASC)
- 8520 · Reciprocating Engine Power Section
- Part
- Case
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Engine
- Part time
- 10,892 hours, 1,229 cycles
- Stage of operation
- TX
- How discovered
- O
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- O
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.