Service difficulty report · Wire · Cessna 560XL

Difficulty date
August 14, 2000
Submitted
January 22, 2001
Operation
General aviation
Make and model
Cessna 560XL
Aircraft time
373 hours
Part
Wire
Part number
99131
Condition
Burned Out
Location
Lt Console
Part time
96 hours, 101 cycles
Component
Avtech
Stage of operation
DE
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
B
Precautionary procedure
B, H

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

What was found

(CAN) UPON DESCENT INTO MUSKOKA CAPTAIN NOTICED SMOKE BY HIS L/H KNEE, AT FIRST MINOR, THEN INTENSIFIED. CAPTAIN DECLARED AN EMERGENCY AND INITIATED AN EMERGENCY DESCENT AND LANDING AT MUSKOKA. PASSENGERS AND CREW DEPARTED THE AIRCRAFT WITH NO INJURIES. MAINTENANCE PERSONEL DISASSEMBLED COCKPIT PILOTS SIDE FOR INVESTIGATION OF SMOKE IN THE COCKPIT. MAINTENANCE PERSONEL FOUND SOME OVERHEATED/ BURNED WIRING AT THE PC038 CONNECTOR TO THE EMERGENCY LIGHTING BATTERY. THE BATTERY WAS SENT TO CESSNA FOR EVALUATION AND THEY REPORTED THAT ALTHOUGH THERE WERE SOME CHAFED WIRES INSIDE THE BATTERY PACK, THEY WERE NOT THE SOURCE OF ANY SMOKE.

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