# SDR QMLA2020090820045

- Type: Service difficulty report (as reported; unverified)
- Difficulty date: September 4, 2020
- Submitted: September 8, 2020
- Operation: Air carrier
- Aircraft: [N146HC](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N146HC), registered now
- Make and model: Bolkms BK117C2
- Aircraft serial: 9069
- Aircraft time: 8,311 hours, 27,433 cycles
- System (JASC): [2300 · Communications System](https://openairdocs.org/jasc/2300)
- Part: Controller
- Part number: HD11715301702
- Part serial: 5566
- Condition: Odor
- Location: Cabin
- Stage of operation: CL
- How discovered: O
- Nature of condition: B
- Precautionary procedure: A
- FAA source: FAA Service Difficulty Reporting System (https://sdrs.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/sdr/QMLA2020090820045

## Discrepancy

FUMES WERE DETECTED IN THE AIRCRAFT UPON DEPARTURE.  WE RETURNED FOR LANDING WITHOUT INCIDENT.  UPON INVESTIGATION THE PART WAS SMELLING LIKE THE FUMES DESCRIBED.  THERE WAS ALSO A FEW DROPS OF WATER, MOST LIKELY FROM A HEAVY RAIN THAT THE AIRCRAFT ENDURED A FEW HOURS PREVIOUS.

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