What was found
THE ACFT WAS UNDER A PHASE 4 INSP, THE HORIZ ATTACHMEMT POINT SPECIAL WAS CARRIED OUT AT THIS TIME. THE ELEVATOR TORQUE TUBES WERE ALSO INSPECTED, A CRACK WAS FOUND ON THE INNER CASTING.
- Difficulty date
- August 25, 2010
- Submitted
- January 4, 2011
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Make and model
- Beech A100
- Aircraft time
- 17,800 hours, 13,953 cycles
- Engine
- Pwa PT6A28
- Propeller
- Hartzl HCD4N3C
- System (JASC)
- 5520 · Elevator Structure
- Part
- Torque Tube
- Part number
- 115610010325
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Inner Casting
- Stage of operation
- IN
- How discovered
- V
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- K
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.