What was found
DURING CRUISE, 30 MIN INTO FLIGHT, AUTOPILOT DISCONNECTED AND WOULD NOT RECONNECT. THE CREW RETURNED . MX REPLACED AUTOPILOT CONTROLLER. OPS CHECKED GOOD IAW MM 22-10-2. ACFT RETURNED TO SERVICE.
- Difficulty date
- August 19, 2011
- Submitted
- August 19, 2011
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N71CX
- Make and model
- Doug DC862F
- Aircraft serial
- 45961
- Aircraft time
- 77,272 hours, 19,701 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 2213 · Flight Controller
- Part
- Controller
- Part number
- 1776001154
- Part serial
- 0881478
- Condition
- Malfunctioned
- Location
- Autopilot
- Part time
- 2,852 hours
- Stage of operation
- CR
- How discovered
- O
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- A
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.