Service difficulty report · Slide · Boeing 737824

Difficulty date
December 12, 2005
Submitted
December 15, 2005
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N27213
Make and model
Boeing 737824
Aircraft serial
28773
Aircraft time
23,795 hours, 8,404 cycles
Part
Slide
Part number
5A30863
Part serial
B3F251
Condition
Twisted
Location
L-1 Door
Part time
19,345 hours, 6,581 cycles
Stage of operation
TX
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
B
Precautionary procedure
O

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

What was found

L-1 DOOR SLIDE DID NOT DEPLOY PROPERLY DURING AN EMERGENCY EVACUATION ON RUNWAY AFTER LANDING AT IAH. EVACUATION WAS PERFORMED DUE TO A HYD LEAK THAT CAUSED FORMATION OF HYD MIST AND FUMES IN CABIN ON LANDING AT IAH. SLIDE WAS DESCRIBED AS BEING UNUSEABLE DUE TO FACT THAT WHEN IT DEPLOYED IT BECAME "TWISTED"/WAS IN A COCKED POSITION (ONE SIDE WAS HIGHER THAN THE OTHER). L-I DOOR SLIDE WAS R/R`D IAW MM 25-66-01. ENGINEERING PERFORMED A DEPLOYMENT TEST WITH ANOTHER SLIDE AT L-I DOOR AND SLIDE DEPLOYED AND INFLATED W/O ANY PROBLEMS. SLIDE PACK CONTAINER AT L-1 DOOR WAS ALSO EXAMINED BY ENGINEERING AND NO ANOMALIES WERE FOUND. ANOTHER SLIDE WAS INSTALLED ON L-1 DOOR TO REPLACE TEST SLIDE. INVESTIGATION IS CONT