What was found
STICK LIMITER WAS NOISY WHILE OPERATING, UNIT REPLACED. DISASSEMBLED AND FOUND ELECTRIC MOTOR CONTAMINATED WITH GREASE FROM GEAR BOX.
- Difficulty date
- July 20, 2010
- Submitted
- January 4, 2011
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Make and model
- Diamon DA42
- Engine
- Lyc IO360M1A
- Propeller
- Mtprop MTV12B
- System (JASC)
- 2700 · Flight Control System
- Part
- Electronic Unit
- Part number
- IMD32430A50
- Condition
- Contaminated
- Location
- Stick Limiter
- Part time
- 766 hours
- Stage of operation
- CR
- How discovered
- O
- Nature of condition
- Z
- Precautionary procedure
- O
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.