What was found
AUTOPILOT ON APPROACHING 2600' IN FLCH AT APPROXIMATELY 210 KIAS AIRCRAFT ABRUPTLY PITCHED NOSE DOWN MISSING ALT CAPTURE BY ROUGHLY 200' REQUIRING A/P DISENGAGEMENT TO CORRECT AIRCRAFT. A/P CENTER WAS IN USE.
- Difficulty date
- December 5, 2019
- Submitted
- December 6, 2019
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N175FE
- Make and model
- Boeing 7673S2F
- Aircraft serial
- 63106
- Aircraft time
- 818 hours, 378 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 2210 · Autopilot System
- Part
- Autopilot Sys
- Condition
- Malfunctioned
- Stage of operation
- AP
- How discovered
- O
- Nature of condition
- F
- Precautionary procedure
- O
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.