Narrative:

When loading the flight plan. We put in the fix KA12Q instead of KA21Q. We reviewed the plan and mileage and did not catch the error. I said will double check to be sure I don't transpose numbers again. Because the two fix's are about 108 from our last waypoint the mileage is about right. They need to change the fix name. It easy to swap the number and they are too close in mileage to show something is wrong with total mileage.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: MD80 Captain reports inadvertently entering the waypoint KA21Q as KA12Q during preflight causing a track deviation. The route mileage increase caused by this error was reportedly not significant enough to be detected during checking.

Narrative: When loading the flight plan. We put in the fix KA12Q instead of KA21Q. We reviewed the plan and mileage and did not catch the error. I said will double check to be sure I don't transpose numbers again. Because the two fix's are about 108 from our last waypoint the mileage is about right. They need to change the fix name. It easy to swap the number and they are too close in mileage to show something is wrong with total mileage.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.