Service difficulty report · Oil Fill Port · Cessna 560XL

Difficulty date
November 24, 2012
Submitted
November 26, 2012
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N670QS
Make and model
Cessna 560XL
Aircraft serial
5605170
Aircraft time
9,897 hours, 7,775 cycles
Part
Oil Fill Port
Condition
Contaminated
Location
Apu Oil Sys
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

AFTER BOTH ENGINES WERE STARTED, THE COCKPIT AND CABIN FILLED WITH SMOKE. APU WAS RUNNING AND BLEED VALVE OPEN. RT ENGINE WAS STARTED FIRST. UNABLE TO DETERMINE SOURCE. NOTHING ABNORMAL IN THE AFT TAILCONE. ENGINE OIL LEVELS WERE NORMAL AND NO LEAKS SEEN. FOUND OIL SPILLED ON THE SERVICING PORT AND ON THE APU ITSELF. THE OIL LEVEL WAS FULL. CLEANED UP THE SPILL AND OPERATED THE APU FOR SEVERAL MINUTES WITH BLEED AIR ON. NO SMOKE NOTED. REMOVED, CLEANED AND REINSTALLED THE WATER SEPARATOR SOCK. INSPECTED THE APU INLET AND FOUND NO OIL OR OIL RESIDUE. RAN APU FOR 30 MINUTES WITH BLEED AIR ON. LEAK CHECKED WATER SEPARATOR, CHECKED GOOD. NO SMOKE NOTED. RAN LT & RT ENGINES WITH BLEED AIR ON, NO SMOKE NOTED. ALL WORK PERFORMED IAW MM 71-00-09 & 21-50-00.

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