- Difficulty date
- June 4, 2015
- Submitted
- June 5, 2015
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N426AA
- Make and model
- Doug DC982
- Aircraft serial
- 49338
- Aircraft time
- 80,889 hours, 43,475 cycles
- Part
- Accumulator
- Condition
- Underserviced
- Location
- Rudder
- Stage of operation
- CL
- How discovered
- O
- Nature of condition
- F
- Precautionary procedure
- O
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.
What was found
EMERGENCY DECLARED, LANDING UNEVENTFUL & ACFT NOT OVERWEIGHT. EXPERIENCING UNCOMMANDED RUDDER INPUTS DURING CLIMB. FOUND RUDDER ACCUMULATOR AT ZERO. SERVICED ACCUMULATOR IAW AMM 27-20-15. PERFORMED RUDDER THRU LIMITER SENSOR CHECK IAW AMM 27-20-06, YAW DAMPER ACTUATOR NULL POSITION IAW AMM 22-13-01. SYSTEM CHECKED NORMAL.