What was found
APU CONTROL APUC DETECTED FAILURE OF REDUNDANT CONTROL FUNCTION OR LOSS OF ONE ARINC 629 CHANNEL. STATUS. FOUND MAG PLUGS FULL OF METAL AND FILTERS CONTAMINATED. DRAINED OIL OUT OF APU. REPLACED APU. OPS CK GOOD.
- Difficulty date
- May 11, 2009
- Submitted
- May 14, 2009
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N778UA
- Make and model
- Boeing 777222
- Aircraft serial
- 26940
- Aircraft time
- 52,652 hours, 9,632 cycles
- Engine
- Pwa PW4077
- System (JASC)
- 4920 · APU Core Engine
- Part
- Apu
- Part number
- 38005501
- Condition
- Making Metal
- Location
- Apu Bay
- Stage of operation
- NR
- How discovered
- O
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- K
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.