What was found
THE FREQUENCY ADAPTER ON THE YELLOW SLEEVE ASSEMBLY WAS FOUND WITH A 14MM CRACK DOWN THE L/E SIDE OF THE UNIT, 10MM IS THE LIMIT.
- Difficulty date
- June 16, 2015
- Submitted
- June 16, 2015
- Operation
- General aviation
- Aircraft
- N850BP
- Make and model
- Snias AS350B3
- Aircraft serial
- 3584
- Aircraft time
- 8,040 hours, 13,373 cycles
- Engine
- Tmeca ARRIEL2B
- Engine time
- 5,648 hours, 3,652 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 6220 · Main Rotor Head
- Part
- Freq Adapter
- Part number
- 704A33640088
- Part serial
- B25389
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Main Rotor Head
- Part time
- 5,695 hours
- Component
- Hub · Airbus
- Component part number
- 355A31000201
- Stage of operation
- NR
- How discovered
- 9
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- O
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.