What was found
WHILE PERFORMING INSPECTION OF THE AIRCRAFT FOUND THE COLLECTIVE CONTROL TUBE FOUND TO HAVE ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT BETWEEN THE CLEVIS AND THE CONTROL TUBE AT THE JUNCTION WITH THE TRANSMISSION BELLCRANK.
- Difficulty date
- May 22, 2017
- Submitted
- May 22, 2017
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N559AE
- Make and model
- Bell 206L4
- Aircraft serial
- 52472
- Aircraft time
- 780 hours, 1,843 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 6710 · Main Rotor Control
- Part
- Control Tube
- Part number
- 206001192001
- Part serial
- US65
- Condition
- Abnormal
- Location
- Collective
- Part time
- 780 hours
- 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.