What was found
FLIGHT 796, DESCENDING THROUGH 18,000 FT A VERY FOUL ODOR WAS DETECTED IN COCKPIT & CABIN (APPEARS TO BE COMING FROM THE AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM). MAINTENANCE REPLACED THE APU ASSEMBLY.
- Difficulty date
- August 2, 2011
- Submitted
- August 8, 2011
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N279AY
- Make and model
- Airbus A330243
- Aircraft serial
- 1011
- Aircraft time
- 9,119 hours, 1,171 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 4900 · Airborne Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) System
- Part
- Apu
- Part number
- 38004546WGEN
- Part serial
- P1192
- Condition
- Odor
- Part time
- 3,053 hours, 397 cycles
- Stage of operation
- DE
- How discovered
- O
- Nature of condition
- B
- Precautionary procedure
- O
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.