Service difficulty report · Mount Bracket · Gulstm 200

Difficulty date
January 3, 2019
Submitted
January 4, 2019
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N251LB
Make and model
Gulstm 200
Aircraft serial
24
Aircraft time
5,892 hours, 3,251 cycles
Part
Mount Bracket
Part number
4AS1750032509
Condition
Broken
Location
Rt Wing
Component
Power Supply · Bfgoodrich · FSCM55438
Component part number
702669
Stage of operation
IN
How discovered
C
Nature of condition
L
Precautionary procedure
K

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

What was found

DURING A PRE-FLIGHT INSPECTION, THE MECHANIC DISCOVERED THAT THE RIGHT-WING NAVIGATION LIGHT WAS NOT ILLUMINATING. THE MECHANIC CHANGED THE LIGHT BUT THE LIGHT WAS STILL NOT ILLUMINATING. NEXT, THE MECHANIC CHECKED THE WIRE CONNECTIONS FOR THE LIGHT AND DID NOT FIND ANY ABNORMALITIES, THEN MECHANIC TAPPED ON THE PANEL THAT HOUSES THE POWER SUPPLY AND HEARD A SMALL RATTLE UPON WHICH MECHANIC TOOK A BORESCOPE AND PLACED IT IN THE PANELS INSPECTION HOLE WHICH MOVED AN OBJECT AT WHICH POINT THE LIGHT CAME ON. WHEN THIS HAPPENED THEY ALSO HEARD A HISSING SOUND AND KNEW SOMETHING WAS NOT RIGHT. SO WE TOOK THE PANEL OFF AND FOUND 2 BRACKETS THAT MOUNT THE POWER SUPPLY TO THE AIRFRAME WERE BOTH BROKEN WHICH LEAD TO THE POWER SUPPLY NOT BEING ATTACHED AND SHORTING OUT ON THE AIRFRAME AND PANEL; WHICH WAS THE SOUND THEY HEARD DURING HIS INSPECTION.