Service difficulty report · Clamp · Emb EMB120ER

Difficulty date
July 30, 2010
Submitted
August 2, 2010
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N96ZK
Make and model
Emb EMB120ER
Aircraft serial
120096
Aircraft time
38,750 hours, 41,674 cycles
Part
Clamp
Condition
Broken
Location
Acm
Component
Acm
Component part number
22045404
Stage of operation
CL
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

PILOT REPORTED THAT DURING CLIMB APU BLEED OPEN, CROSS BLEED OPEN, SWITCHED PACKS TO NORM, 30-60 SECONDS LATER LT PACK FAILED, SLIGHT SMOKE SMELL IN COCKPIT AND F/A REPORTED SMOKE IN CABIN, RESET LT PACK, RAN CHECKLIST, T6 SPIKED FROM 715 TO 790 DEGREES AND RT ENGINE SURGED THEN ALL ENGINE INDICATIONS RETURNED TO NORMAL, RETURNED TO DENVER WITH PACKS AND BLEEDS IN LOW. MX FOUND A BROKEN CLAMP AND MISSING O-RING AT THE HEAT EXCHANGER, REPLACED CLAMP AND O-RING, ADDITIONALLY REPLACED THE RT ACM, PERFORMED OPS CHECKS WITH BOTH ENGINES AND APU RUNNING IAW EMB MM 21-50-05, NO FURTHER DISCREPANCIES NOTED, NO SMOKE OR SURGING OF ENGINE NOTED, ALL CHECKS GOOD.

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