Service difficulty report · Pcb · Cessna 560XL

Difficulty date
July 18, 2019
Submitted
July 22, 2019
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N693QS
Make and model
Cessna 560XL
Aircraft serial
5605657
Aircraft time
10,976 hours, 8,478 cycles
Part
Pcb
Part number
65183517
Part serial
0964
Condition
Unserviceable
Location
Cockpit
Stage of operation
CR
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
B
Precautionary procedure
A

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

What was found

AT FL390 APPROX 25 MINUTES INTO THE FLIGHT A FAINT ODOR WAS NOTICED IN THE COCKPIT, AFTER CHECKING THE CABIN AND LAV AREA THE ODOR WAS NARROWED DOWN TO THE COCKPIT. CREW DISCUSSED TYPE OF ODOR AND SOURCE AND DISCOVERED THE STRONGEST PRESENCE WAS COMING FROM THE LEFT COCKPIT SIDE PANEL AND AROUND LEFT COCKPIT WINDOWS. AT THIS POINT CREW BEGAN COMPLYING WITH THE CHECKLIST AND DISCUSSING OPTIONS, AT ABOUT 45 MINS INTO THE FLIGHT THE LEFT AND RIGHT AMP GAUGES BEGAN FLUCTUATE APPROX 50 AMPS. ( LEFT WOULD JUMP TO 100 RIGHT WOULD GO TO ZERO, RIGHT TO 100 LEFT TO ZERO) AT THIS POINT THE SMELL BECAME STRONGER. CREW DECLARED AN EMERGENCY AND DIVERTED TO KBNA. THRU OUT THE DESCENT AMP GAUGES CONTINUED TO FLUCUATE BUT NO OTHER ABNORMAL INDICATIONS IN THE COCKPIT WAS NOTICED, INCLUDING ANY SIDE PANELS AND INSTRUMENT PANEL ABNORMALLY WARM. CREW AGREES THE SMELL DOES NOT SEEM TO BE AN ELECTRICAL SMELL SUCH AS WIRES BURNING AND SMELL CAN NOT BE NOTICED ON THE THE GROUND IF ENVIROMENTAL SYSTEM IS OPERATING. //SIGNOFF// REMOVED AND REPLACED TRIM PCB, PRESS PCB, DIMMING PCB, LANDING GEAR PCB, GEAR CONTROL PCB, SQUATSWIB;H PCB, CABIN DOOR PCB, NO TAKE OFF PCB OPERATIONAL CHECKS GOOD AT THIS TIME REF CE·560XL AMM 24-51-01.

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