Service difficulty report · Augment Valve · Doug DC987

Difficulty date
August 16, 2005
Submitted
August 19, 2005
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N803ML
Make and model
Doug DC987
Aircraft serial
49726
Aircraft time
43,731 hours, 25,595 cycles
Engine
Pwa JT8D219
Part
Augment Valve
Condition
Out Of Adjust
Location
Fire Bottle
Part time
11,493 hours, 7,346 cycles
Component
Fire Bottle · Kidde
Component part number
898150
Stage of operation
TX
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
J
Precautionary procedure
D

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

What was found

AIRCRAFT RETURNED TO PLATFORM, DURING THE LT ENGINE START, THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER AGENT 2 LOW LIGHT TURNED ON. THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER POSITION 2 WAS REPLACED IAW MM 26-20-01; LT AUGMENTING VALVE WAS ADJUSTED IAW MM 36-10-01; THE CLAMS OF AUGMENTING VALVE AND REGULATOR VALVE WERE REPLACED IAW MM 20-10-11 AND LEAKS CHECK WAS PERFORMED IAW MM 21-10-00, MM 30-10-00 AND MM 36-10-00, TESTED CORRECT.

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