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A321 first officer reported captain elected to depart without required hazmat documents for battery powered wheelchair cargo.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1607242 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201901 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | A321 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Taxi |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | First Officer Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Hazardous Material Violation Deviation - Procedural Weight And Balance |
Narrative:
During pushback the ground crew mentioned they were late pushing off the gate due to complications getting an electric wheelchair in the cargo compartment. When the load closeout came; I noticed that there wasn't an entry under the 'west/B' (wheelchair battery) row with a quantity or location. It was my understanding that a notac (notice to captain) is not required; but that it would show up for crew awareness and weight and balance purposes on the load closeout. I brought it to the attention of the captain a couple times that I thought it needed to be present; but he disagreed saying that it was only important that we knew it was there for smoke/fire purposes but wasn't needed on the closeout. At that point I deferred to captains authority. We proceeded without further action.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A321 First Officer reported Captain elected to depart without required Hazmat documents for battery powered wheelchair cargo.
Narrative: During pushback the ground crew mentioned they were late pushing off the gate due to complications getting an electric wheelchair in the cargo compartment. When the load closeout came; I noticed that there wasn't an entry under the 'W/B' (wheelchair battery) row with a quantity or location. It was my understanding that a NOTAC (Notice to Captain) is not required; but that it would show up for crew awareness and weight and balance purposes on the load closeout. I brought it to the attention of the Captain a couple times that I thought it needed to be present; but he disagreed saying that it was only important that we knew it was there for smoke/fire purposes but wasn't needed on the closeout. At that point I deferred to Captains authority. We proceeded without further action.
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.