Service difficulty report · Cooling Turbine · Doug MD88

Difficulty date
April 12, 2007
Submitted
April 13, 2007
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N162PL
Make and model
Doug MD88
Aircraft serial
49765
Aircraft time
50,723 hours, 34,980 cycles
Engine
Pwa JT8D219
Part
Cooling Turbine
Part number
20495054
Part serial
89914635
Condition
Contaminated
Location
Left
Part time
24,399 hours, 10,676 cycles
Stage of operation
TX
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
B
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 DUE TO SMOKE DETECTORS ALARMS OF AFT LAVATORIES WERE ACTIVATED BEFORE TAKE-OFF. DURING MAINTENANCE INSPECTION, IT WAS DETECTED OIL CONTAMINATION IN DUCTS OF COOLING TURBINE, WATER SEPARATOR AND PRIMARY AND SECONDARY HEAT EXCHANGERS OF LT AIR CONDITIONED SYSTEM. TURBINE COOLING, WATER SEPARATOR AND HEAT EXCHANGERS WERE REPLACED IAW M/M 21-51-01, 21-20-02, 21-51-02 AND 21-51-03 RESPECTIVELY, TESTED ALL CORRECT IAW M/M 21-00-00. AS A PRECAUTIONARY ACTION, LT SMOKE DETECTOR WAS REPLACED IAW AVAS MRB 26-14-00-01 TESTED ALL CORRECT.

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