N438CR

ATA 2751

Part: SWITCH — DEFECTIVE (TE FLAP) · airframe 15,855 hrs · 14,651 cycles

DURING APPROACH, PILOT SELECTED APPROACH FLAPS SETTING. SELECTION OF APPROACH FLAPS CAUSED NO MOVEMENT IN FLAP SYS. PILOT ATTEMPTED FLAP SELECTION ONCE MORE WITH NO LUCK. PILOT REFERRED TO CHECKLIST FOR FAILED FLAPS. PILOT ELECTED TO ABORT APPROACH & LANDING & DIVERTED BACK. PERFORMED NO FLAPS APPROACH & LANDING WITHOUT INCIDENT. DURING TROUBLESHOOTING, VERIFIED INOPERATIVE FLAP SYS & DISCOVERED APPROACH MICRO SWITCH PN V3-1 TO BE DEFECTIVE. OPTED TO REPLACE UP, APPROACH & DOWN MICRO SWITCHES, THREE EACH, DURING REPAIRS DUE TO CONVENIENCE. .

ATA 2910

Part: CLAMP — LOOSE (HYD LINE) · airframe 15,714 hrs · 14,512 cycles

DURING CLIMB, EXPERIENCED RED LANDING GEAR DISAGREEMENT LIGHT. DID NOT NOTICE OR HEAR ANY OTHER FACTORS TO ALARM THEM OF ANY MECHANICAL FAILURES. CONTINUED TO DESTINATION. DURING FINAL APPROACH, EXTENDED LANDING GEAR AND RED LIGHT EXTINGUISHED AND ALL THREE GREEN LIGHTS ILLUMINATED. LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT. FOUND A CLAMP HAD MOVED ON THE RT MAIN GEAR BRAKE LINE WHICH ALLOWED THE LINE TO HANG ON THE GEAR DOORS PREVENTING THE RT MAIN GEAR FROM REACHING THE "UP AND LOCKED" SWITCH. AIRCRAFT HAS BEEN REPAIRED AND RELEASED.

ATA 5610

Part: WINDSHIELD — CRACKED (COCKPIT) · airframe 15,646 hrs · 14,450 cycles

AT APPROXIMATELY 2130 CST, ACFT IN DESCENT, PIC HEARD A LOUD "POP" FROM THE COPILOT WINDSHIELD. UPON VISUAL INSPECTION, PIC NOTICED COPILOT WINDOW PANE CRACKED AND SHATTERED. PILOT REQUESTED "PRIORITY HANDLING" WITH ATC FOR ARRIVAL AND WAS INFORMED HE WOULD BE NR 6. DUE TO FACTORS SUCH AS NIGHT FLIGHT, UNKNOWN DAMAGE TO COPILOT WINDSHIELD, AND THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN MOVING IN TO THE AREA, PIC OPTED TO DECLARE AN "EMERGENCY" AND AGAIN REQUESTED PRIORITY HANDLING. ACFT LANDED UNEVENTFUL. POST FLIGHT INSPECTION REVEALED INNER PANE CRACKED AND NO OBVIOUS SIGNS OF FOREIGN IMPACT.

ATA 7603

Part: SWITCH — INTERMITTENT (THROTTLE) · airframe 15,601 hrs · 14,415 cycles

AIRCRAFT DEPARTED, ENROUTE, AFTER FLIGHT CREW INITIATED CLIMBOUT AND RETRACTED LANDING GEAR, CREW OBSERVED ALL GREEN LIGHTS WERE EXTINGUISHED BUT THE RED HANDLE LIGHT (GEAR UNSAFE LIGHT) WAS ILLUMINATED. CREW OPTED TO CYCLE GEAR ONCE MORE AND OBSERVED RED LIGHT EXTINGUISH MOMENTARILY, BUT WOULD ILLUMINATE AGAIN WITH THE GEAR UP. CREW REPORTED HEARING POPPING SOUND WHILE GEAR WAS BEING RETRACTED. ON ARRIVAL INTO AIRSPACE, CREW NOTIFIED APPROACH OF ISSUE AND FOLLOWED CHECKLIST FOR GEAR INDICATION FAILURE. GEAR WAS MANUALLY EXTENDED IAW APPROVED CHECKLIST. ACFT LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT. POST LANDING VISUAL INSPECTION REVEALED NO NOTICEABLE FAULTS OR FAILURES. FOUND THROTTLE SWITCH TO BE INTERMITTENT. REPLACED THROTTLE POSITION SWITCH WITH NEW PART. OPS CHECK GOOD.

ATA 2460

Part: CIRCUIT BREAKER — TRIPPED · airframe 15,491 hrs · 14,327 cycles

ON FINAL APPROACH, EXPERIENCED LOSS OF RADIOS, NAVIGATION, TRANSPONDERS, GPS, AND AUTOPILOT. CREW IDENTIFIED A TRIPPED CIRCUIT BREAKER AND DUE TO PROXIMITY OF AIRPORT AND OTHER TRAFFIC, CREW OPTED TO LOAD SHED AND RESET BREAKER TO GET COMM RADIOS BACK. RESET BREAKER, DECLARED EMERGENCY. PERFORMED CHECKLIST. CIRCUIT BREAKER DID NOT TRIP AGAIN ONCE RESET. OPEN

ATA 2197

Part: WIRE — SHORTED (CABIN PRESSURE) · airframe 15,453 hrs · 14,290 cycles

WHILE CLIMBING OUT, CREW NOTICED ACFT CABIN WAS NOT PRESSURIZING. CREW MEMBER REVIEWED CHECKLIST AND VERIFIED SYS WAS NOT FUNCTIONING NORMAL. DIVERTED BACK TO DEPARTURE. ACFT LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT. MX DISCOVERED WIRES D30A22, AND D26C22 FROM PINS 3 AND 5 ON TEST/DUMP SWITCH (S118) TOUCHING EACH OTHER. THIS CONDITION PLACED THE PRESSURIZATION SYS IN DUMP STATUS, OPENING BOTH OUTFLOW AND SAFETY VALVES IN THE CABIN, BUT STILL ALLOWING THE INFLATABLE DOOR SEAL TO INFLATE. THE WIRING WAS CORRECTED THE FOLLOWING DAY, AND THE ACFT MADE A SUCCESSFUL MX FLIGHT FEBRUARY 14, 2012. NO PART(S), COMPONENTS, OR STRUCTURES WERE LISTED DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE FAILURE.

ATA 5610

Part: WINDSHIELD — FAILED (COCKPIT) · airframe 14,947 hrs · 13,904 cycles

DURING FLIGHT, RT WINDSHIELD MIDDLE PANE SHATTERED (INNER AND OUTER PANE REMAINED INTACT). ACFT WAS 30 MINUTES INTO FLIGHT AT FL270. ACFT CREW RECEIVED CLEARANCE TO LOWER ALTITUDE AND DIVERTED. ACFT REMAINED UNTIL A FERRY PERMIT WAS ACQUIRED. THE ACFT WAS THEN RELOCATED FROM FOR REPAIRS.