What was found
WHILE CHANGING APU GENERATOR, FOUND BOTH OIL FILTER DPI'S EXTENDED AND EXCESSIVE METAL CONTAMINATION ON CHIP DETECTOR. DRAINED MOST OF OIL FROM APU. REPLACED APU PER MM.
- Difficulty date
- August 15, 2011
- Submitted
- September 12, 2011
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N440UA
- Make and model
- Airbus A320232
- Aircraft serial
- 702
- Aircraft time
- 47,623 hours, 18,895 cycles
- Engine
- Iae V2527A5
- System (JASC)
- 4920 · APU Core Engine
- Part
- Apu
- Part number
- 4500001B
- Part serial
- 1652
- Condition
- Making Metal
- Location
- Apu Bay
- Stage of operation
- IN
- How discovered
- V
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- K
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.