Service difficulty report · Display · Bell 430

Difficulty date
April 7, 2009
Submitted
April 10, 2009
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N557UH
Make and model
Bell 430
Aircraft serial
49119
Aircraft time
2,484 hours, 6,736 cycles
Part
Display
Part number
430375002109
Part serial
05010552
Condition
Failed
Location
Efis
Stage of operation
NR
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
B
Precautionary procedure
O

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

What was found

RETURNING, NOTICED A BURNING ODOR IN THE COCKPIT. ASKED THE CREW IF THEY COULD SMELL ANYTHING AND THEY INFORMED ME THEY COULD SMELL IT AS WELL. STARTED LOOKING FOR INDICATIONS AS TO WHERE THE ODOR WAS COMING FROM. THERE WERE NO INDICATION LIGHTS ON THE IIDS AND COULD NOT ISOLATE THE FAULT AT THAT MOMENT. WE WERE NOW STARTING OUR APPROACH, COMPLETED THE LANDING AND THEN GOT A RED MON INDICATION ON MY EADI. THEN NOTICED THE CO-PILOTS EHSI WAS DEAD. MX NOTIFIED OF A BURNING ODOR IN THE COCKPIT AND FOUND THE TUBE HAD SMOKED.

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