Broken, Loose, Failed

The pilot was making a left turn in front of a hangar. He pulled the control wheel full aft to take the weight off the front wheel and the control wheel broke off in his hand. The break formed across the wheel, from the lower left to the upper right. Control wheel p/n: 0513168-2.

Editorial Staff

Monday, February 23, 2009 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

A Cessna 172A experienced a control wheel breaking off during ground maneuvers.
Multiple Cessna aircraft (172S/T206) were found with loose fuel-servo plugs, likely due to improper factory torquing, while a Cessna 210 had an oil cooler gasket fail in flight.
Piper aircraft showed landing gear integrity issues, including a fatigue-cracked nose gear drag link on a PA-44-180 and a main gear torque link breaking on a PA28-140, which was past its suggested retirement time.

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Cessna 172A

Broken Control Wheel

Part Total Time: (unknown).

Cessna 210

Failed Oil-Cooler Gasket

An oil cooler adapter gasket failed in flight, causing two quarts of oil to be pumped into the engine cowling within an hour. The IO-520 was a factory remanufactured