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Aircraft maintenance crew reported deploying a cabin slide while attempting to replace an entry door spline.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1544729 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201805 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Exterior Pax/Crew Door |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Technician |
| Qualification | Maintenance Airframe Maintenance Powerplant |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | Lead Technician |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Maintenance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
Crew chief came into the lunch room and told me he had a job for me to do. 'It would take me 15 minutes.' he gave me a spline mechanism and told me R3 door. I said 'door? [We need [another technician]'. He said 'don't worry about it; I'm signing it off.' I went to [the aircraft] with the spline mechanism and an illustrated parts catalog picture reference that [he] gave me. I checked the R3 door and found no problem. I checked the L3 door; found no problem. Then [he] comes up on the plane and points to the R3 door spline mechanism. I told him; 'there's nothing wrong with it.' he then tells me 'it's the R2 door.' we go to the R2 door and see that the spline mechanism is broke. [He] gives me paperwork; and says 'looks like one nut; that's it.' I took my wrench; turned the nut about a quarter turn and the slide blew.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Aircraft Maintenance crew reported deploying a cabin slide while attempting to replace an entry door spline.
Narrative: Crew chief came into the lunch room and told me he had a job for me to do. 'It would take me 15 minutes.' He gave me a spline mechanism and told me R3 door. I said 'door? [we need [another technician]'. He said 'don't worry about it; I'm signing it off.' I went to [the aircraft] with the spline mechanism and an Illustrated Parts Catalog picture reference that [he] gave me. I checked the R3 door and found no problem. I checked the L3 door; found no problem. Then [he] comes up on the plane and points to the R3 door spline mechanism. I told him; 'There's nothing wrong with it.' He then tells me 'it's the R2 door.' We go to the R2 door and see that the spline mechanism is broke. [He] gives me paperwork; and says 'looks like one nut; that's it.' I took my wrench; turned the nut about a quarter turn and the slide blew.
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.