San Bernardino Sheriff’s Aviation - Non-injury incident

Date: 5/16/2008 1415 PDT

Program: San Bernardino Sheriff?s Aviation
	1776 Miro Way
	Rialto, CA  92376
	
	

Type: UH1H Super Huey
Tail #: N306SB
Operator/Vendor: San Bernardino Sheriff?s Dept.

Weather: Clear. Not a factor

Team: Pilot, flight nurse, and two flight paramedics.. No injuries reported. No patient. 

Description: 
	Returning from a static display, the crew caught a slight smell of hot
	oil.  Less than a minute later, while entering the pattern at Rialto
	Airport, the master caution and hydraulic segmented caution lights
	illuminated.  The pilot extended his downwind and completed a long
	shallow approach to a running landing to runway 35. No injuries were
	reported.
	
	

Additional Info: 
	Maintenance personnel discovered that a flexible braided metal high
	pressure hydraulic line running near the transmission had developed a
	pinhole leak resulting in the loss of hydraulic fluid.
	
	 
	
	
	

Source: Tom Hornsby, Captain

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