Service difficulty report · Unknown · Cndair CL6002B19

Difficulty date
November 10, 2012
Submitted
November 19, 2012
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N433AW
Make and model
Cndair CL6002B19
Aircraft serial
7289
Aircraft time
29,837 hours, 29,006 cycles
Part
Unknown
Condition
Smoke
Location
Cabin & Cockpit
Stage of operation
CR
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
B
Precautionary procedure
K

As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.

What was found

PERFORMED AN AIR START OF BOTH ENGINES. AFTER BRINGING PACKS ONLINE AND CLOSING PAX DOOR COCKPIT AND CABIN FILLED WITH A HAZY SMOKE AND TOXIC SMELLING ODOR. PACKS TAKEN OFFLINE. BOTH ENGINES WERE SHUT DOWN. HAZE/ODOR DISSIPATED. MX CONTACTED. PAX DEPLANED WHILE MX CAME OUT TO CHECK PACKS. EMPLOYED ALTERNATE AIR CART AND RAN PACKS. FAINT SMELL WAS DETECTED, BUT WAS TOLERABLE AND NO SMOKE WAS PRESENT. ELECTED TO RESUME FLIGHT. JUST PRIOR TO ACCELERATION SAME ODOR WAS DETECTED, BUT FAINTER THAN PREVIOUSLY EXPERIENCED ON GROUND. ONCE AGAIN IT DISSIPATED ENOUGH THAT CREW WAS COMFORTABLE CONTINUING THE FLIGHT. ON ARRIVAL, WHILE CONFIGURING AND BRINGING UP THRUST, THE SAME ODOR APPEARED. MX PERFORMED ENGINE RUNS WITH NO ODOR NOTED PER AMM 71-00-00. ALL OPS CHECKS GOOD.