SDR YENA200532

Service difficulty report · Apu · Airbus A320232

Difficulty date
May 20, 2005
Submitted
May 23, 2005
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N543JB
Make and model
Airbus A320232
Aircraft serial
1823
Aircraft time
11,875 hours, 4,288 cycles
Part
Apu
Condition
Overserviced
Location
Apu Bay
Stage of operation
DE
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
W, B
Precautionary procedure
H

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

What was found

ODOR DURING DESCENT. TURNED OFF LIVE TV SYS, ODOR WENT AWAY, COCKPIT ONLY. F/A'S DID NOT REPORT ODOR. SURVEILLANCE SYS NORMAL. LIVE TV MASTER SWITCH ON O/H TURNED OFF. ALL COCKPIT FUNCTIONS NORM. ODOR EMITTED FROM COCKPIT FRONT GASPERS. WHILE TRYING TO DUP WRITE UP ON GROUND W/MX SAME ODOR NOTICED WITH APU'S & BOTH PACS RUNNING. ODOR COMING FROM ECS (PACS & AC SYS) PILOT DEBRIEFED & INFORMED MX PACKS (ECS SYS) RUNNING SAME ODOR APPEARED IN COCKPIT & CABIN WITH LIVE TV SYS OFF, FOUND APU OVERSERVICED CKD. DECON OF ENVIRON CONTROL SYS. CHANGED RECIRC FILTERS & OZONE FILTERS. NO ODOR NOTICED. OPS & SYS CK FOR INFO MASTER SWITCH SHUTS SYS OF "LIVE TV" NOT CSS SYS. NO DEFECT NOTED WITH LIVE TV.

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