# SDR QMLA2025042120051

- Type: Service difficulty report (as reported; unverified)
- Difficulty date: April 20, 2025
- Submitted: April 21, 2025
- Operation: Air carrier
- Aircraft: [N341AM](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N341AM), registered now
- Make and model: Urocop EC 130 B4
- Registry model: [Urocop EC 130 B4](https://openairdocs.org/model/eurocopter-ec-130-b4) (OpenAirDocs)
- Aircraft serial: EC7232
- Aircraft time: 3,600 hours, 12,338 cycles
- System (JASC): [2820 · Aircraft Fuel Distribution System](https://openairdocs.org/jasc/2820)
- Part: O-Ring
- Part number: MS2951212
- Condition: Leaking
- Stage of operation: CR
- How discovered: O
- Nature of condition: K, B
- Precautionary procedure: A
- FAA source: FAA Service Difficulty Reporting System (https://sdrs.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/sdr/QMLA2025042120051

## Discrepancy

IN CRUISE FLIGHT, EN ROUTE TO A SCENE. CREW FIRST REPORTED FUEL SMELL, THEN A FEW SECONDS LATER I SMELLED FUEL. MOMENTS LATER CREW REPORTED SMELLING SMOKE, WHICH I SMELLED OR GOT A VISUAL ON. I THEN PROCEEDED TO DO A PRECAUTIONARY
LANDING IN A NEARBY FIELD WITH OUT INCIDENCE. FOUND FUEL SEEPING FROM MAIN FUEL LINE, REPLACED O-RING, NO DEFECTS NOTED.  THIS AIRCRAFT HAS BEEN RETURNED TO REVENUE SERVICE, REF # MEC-008572

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