What was found
VERY STRONG OIL FUMES DECENDING BELOW 10000 FEET. AIRCRAFT WAS GROUNDED. REPLACED THE APU IAW 26L31049003 AND 26L000221001.
- Difficulty date
- January 12, 2018
- Submitted
- January 17, 2018
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N746UW
- Make and model
- Airbus A319112
- Aircraft serial
- 1297
- Aircraft time
- 46,256 hours, 29,614 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 4920 · APU Core Engine
- Part
- Apu
- Part number
- 9483009
- Part serial
- 462
- Condition
- Odor
- Part time
- 6,693 hours, 3,741 cycles
- Stage of operation
- DE
- How discovered
- 9
- Nature of condition
- B
- Precautionary procedure
- O
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.