Service difficulty report · Crankshaft · Bnorm BN2B20

Difficulty date
April 7, 2016
Submitted
April 14, 2016
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N510BN
Make and model
Bnorm BN2B20
Aircraft serial
2239
Aircraft time
17,301 hours, 24,148 cycles
Engine
Lyc IO540K1B5
Engine time
1,856 hours, 1,297 cycles
Propeller
Hartzl HCC2YK2
Part
Crankshaft
Condition
Damaged
Location
Rt Engine
Stage of operation
CR
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
R
Precautionary procedure
K

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

What was found

PILOT REPORTED PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER IN FLIGHT ON RT ENG, ENGINE RUNNING ROUGH. AFTER BOTH ENGS FULL POWER FOR ABOUT 30 SECONDS, POWER CAME BACK. ENGS WERE BROUGHT BACK TO CRUISE & THE RT ENG BEGAN RUNNING ROUGH. PERFORMED A PRELIMINARY INSPECTION & FOUND METAL CONTAMINATION IN OIL SAMPLES. FURTHER INSPECTION LEAD TO EVIDENCE OF DAMAGE TO THE CRANKSHAFT. FINAL RESULTS PENDING TEAR DOWN ANALYSIS.