What was found
DURING GROUND OPS, APU AUTO SHUTDOWN. DRAIN CHIP DETECTOR INSPECTED AND FOUND FULL OF METAL PARTICLES. REPLACED APU.
- Difficulty date
- August 2, 2011
- Submitted
- September 6, 2011
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N779UA
- Make and model
- Boeing 777222
- Aircraft serial
- 26941
- Aircraft time
- 61,490 hours, 11,046 cycles
- Engine
- Pwa PW4077
- System (JASC)
- 4990 · APU Oil System
- Part
- Apu
- Part number
- 38005501
- Part serial
- P1008331
- Condition
- Making Metal
- Stage of operation
- TX
- How discovered
- 9
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- O
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.