SDR SB07002

Service difficulty report · Transformer · Boeing 737301

Difficulty date
January 1, 2007
Submitted
January 3, 2007
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N502UW
Make and model
Boeing 737301
Aircraft serial
23232
Part
Transformer
Part number
2299
Condition
Faulty
Location
E&E Bay
Stage of operation
CR
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
B
Precautionary procedure
H

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

What was found

RDU - FLT849 EN ROUTE FROM CLT TO RDU, CREW REPORTED AN ELECTRICAL BURNING SMELL THROUGHOUT THE CABIN. SMELL APPEARED STRONGEST AROUND ROW 14. MAINTENANCE FOUND THE CEILING LIGHTS AT ROWS 11/12, RIGHT-HAND SIDE, HAD FAILED. SUSPECT BALLAST HAD FAILED. AIRCRAFT RELEASED PER MEL 33-2A. ON THE NEXT FLIGHT (FLT1674), EN ROUTE FROM RDU TO CLT, CREW AGAIN REPORTED AN ODOR IN THE CABIN OF SULPHUR AND/OR PLASTIC BURNING IN THE VICINITY OF ROWS 10 THRU 13. ODOR SEEMED TO IMPROVE WHEN RIGHT PACK AND RECIRCULATION FAN WAS TURNED OFF. FLIGHT CONTINUED AND LANDED WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT. MAINTENANCE FOUND THE SMOKE/SMELL NOT ASSSOCIATED WITH THE CEILING LIGHTS. FOUND THE ODOR COMING FROM THE NR 2 TRANSFORMER RECTI