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An air carrier first officer reported company SOP to disarm emergency exit lights for some operations has resulted in passengers being boarded on subsequent flights with the lights disarmed in violation of pertinent fars.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1092369 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201306 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | LAX.Airport |
| State Reference | CA |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B757 Undifferentiated or Other Model |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Emergency Exit Lighting |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Pilot Not Flying First Officer |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 220 Flight Crew Total 14000 Flight Crew Type 11000 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural FAR |
Narrative:
Current SOP has the passenger emergency exit lights disarmed for 'go dark' operations. Because of the new 45 minute report times; customer service begins boarding passengers without properly arming passenger emergency exit lights. This violates our SOP and crash fire rescue equipment; part 25; paragraph 25.811. We had a mostly filled airplane at the time of discovery. This is a common occurrence now.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: An air carrier First Officer reported company SOP to disarm emergency exit lights for some operations has resulted in passengers being boarded on subsequent flights with the lights disarmed in violation of pertinent FARs.
Narrative: Current SOP has the Passenger Emergency Exit Lights disarmed for 'Go Dark' operations. Because of the new 45 minute report times; Customer Service begins boarding passengers without properly arming Passenger Emergency Exit lights. This violates our SOP and CFR; Part 25; paragraph 25.811. We had a mostly filled airplane at the time of discovery. This is a common occurrence now.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.