Narrative:

On approach to runway 28L; I called for flaps 5. As I continued; I called gear down flaps 15. The first officer lowered gear and paused; then stated flaps were jacked up. I noted split flap indication with amber disagreement light. He pointed out that overhead looked fine as they showed green. I told tower I was going around and needed vectors to run a checklist. I asked for asymmetrical flap checklist and he read through and performed checklist. He asked if the aircraft felt normal and I indicated it did. There were parts of the checklist I questioned and he pointed out that I had told him aircraft flew normal and the checklist directed him to step two. I asked if this was asymmetrical flaps checklist and he confirmed it was. After landing he realized he had read split trailing edge flaps checklist. We made a normal landing with flaps split between zero and two.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 flight crew reported they ran the wrong QRH after noting a split flap condition.

Narrative: On approach to Runway 28L; I called for flaps 5. As I continued; I called gear down flaps 15. The First Officer lowered gear and paused; then stated flaps were jacked up. I noted split flap indication with amber disagreement light. He pointed out that overhead looked fine as they showed green. I told Tower I was going around and needed vectors to run a checklist. I asked for Asymmetrical Flap Checklist and he read through and performed checklist. He asked if the aircraft felt normal and I indicated it did. There were parts of the checklist I questioned and he pointed out that I had told him aircraft flew normal and the checklist directed him to Step Two. I asked if this was Asymmetrical Flaps Checklist and he confirmed it was. After landing he realized he had read Split Trailing Edge Flaps Checklist. We made a normal landing with flaps split between zero and two.

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.