Service difficulty report · Seal · Lear 45LEAR

Difficulty date
January 3, 2017
Submitted
January 5, 2017
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N90XR
Make and model
Lear 45LEAR
Aircraft serial
2090
Aircraft time
5,210 hours, 4,424 cycles
Part
Seal
Part number
4557600158007
Condition
Frozen
Location
Aileron
Part time
5,210 hours
Stage of operation
CL
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
F, J
Precautionary procedure
O

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

What was found

FLEW TO KLUK ABOUT 0700. A/C SAT ON THE RAMP UNTIL ABOUT 1530, ABOUT WHICH TIME WE DEPARTED FOR KGRR. APPROX 10 MINUTES INTO OUR FLIGHT APPROACHING FL250 WITH A CLEARANCE TO CLIMB HIGHER. ABOUT THIS TIME AND ALTITUDE, WE RECEIVED AN AMBER AP AIL MISTRIM EICAS MESSAGE TO WHICH THE 1ST OFFICER RESPONDED TO BY HOLDING THE CONTROLS AND DISCONNECTING THE AUTO PILOT. AT THAT TIME, HE SAID THAT HE WAS UNABLE TO CONTROL AIRCRAFT ROLL NORMALLY, DUE TO THE AILERONS BEING JAMMED OR FROZEN. CAPTAIN THEN TOOK CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT, CONTROLLED IT WITH RUDDER AND THRUST INITIALLY (MOSTLY RUDDER, WHICH WORKED GREAT), AND THEN PULLED THE ROLL DISC LEVER PER THE AFM. FOR SEVERAL REASONS, WE DECLARED AN EMERGENCY, RAN ALL THE APPROPRIATE CHECKLISTS FOR THIS CONDITION AND LANDED UNEVENTFULLY IN KGRR. THE WEATHER CONDITIONS IN KLUK FOR AT LEAST THE PREVIOUS FEW HOURS BEFORE OUR DEPARTURE INCLUDED LOW CEILINGS, NON-FROZEN PRECIPITATE AND TEMPERATURES APPROXIMATELY IN THE HIGH 40’S TO LOW 50’S FAHRENHEIT. OUR CLIMB OUT WAS ALMOST ALL IN IMC CONDITIONS AND IN LIGHT, NON-CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION AND THE TEMPERATURES AT 25,000’ MSL WERE ABOUT -30 C.STS FOR THIS CONDITION AND LANDED UNEVENTFULLY IN KGRR.