# SDR DALA2025032002124

- Type: Service difficulty report (as reported; unverified)
- Difficulty date: March 16, 2025
- Submitted: March 20, 2025
- Operation: Air carrier
- Aircraft: [N870DN](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N870DN), registered now
- Make and model: Boeing 737932ER
- Aircraft serial: 31981
- Aircraft time: 26,485 hours, 10,290 cycles
- System (JASC): [5100 · Standard Practices/Structures](https://openairdocs.org/jasc/5100)
- Part: None
- Condition: None
- Location: None
- Stage of operation: NR
- How discovered: O
- Nature of condition: O
- Precautionary procedure: O
- FAA source: FAA Service Difficulty Reporting System (https://sdrs.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/sdr/DALA2025032002124

## Discrepancy

(LOG 6895384) SUSPECTED LIGHTNING STRIKE AT GATE. APU GEN CYCLED ON AND OFF THEN ON FOLLOWED BY ELECTRICAL BURNING SMELL FOR 1 MINUTE IN FLIGHT DECK AND 5 MINUTES IN AFT GALLEY. FOUND APU START GEN SHOWS SIGNS OF ARCING. R/R APU START GEN REF B737 AMM 49-11. OPS CKS GOOD. NO ELECTRICAL ODOR PRESENT.

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