What was found
DURING BATTERY REPLACEMENT, FOUND BATTERY HAD CRACKED AND LEAKED CAUSING INTERIOR OF ELT TO BECOME SEVERELY CORRODED. ELT WAS STILL FUNCTIONAL ON FUNCTION TEST.
- Difficulty date
- March 27, 1995
- Submitted
- March 26, 2000
- Operation
- General aviation
- Aircraft
- N821GS
- Make and model
- Piper PA34200T
- Aircraft serial
- 347770419
- System (JASC)
- 2562 · Emergency Locator Beacon
- Part
- Elt
- Part number
- EB2BCD
- Condition
- Case Leak
- Location
- Battery
- Component
- Martech
- Stage of operation
- IN
- Nature of condition
- K
- Precautionary procedure
- K
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.