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Ramp personnel reported the discovery of a dry ice pack that had been erroneously loaded on an aircraft after the flight had departed.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1628251 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201903 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Ramp |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Hazardous Material Violation Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
I was working the front pit loading. My lead had started to load the dg in the forward pit and instructed me to load them in pit 2; after we had dispatched the aircraft ramp lead had discovered that dry ice had been [erroneously] loaded into pit 2. Operations then proceeded to try to contact the aircraft before it was inflight; he was unable to contact aircraft before it was off the ground.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Ramp personnel reported the discovery of a Dry Ice Pack that had been erroneously loaded on an aircraft after the flight had departed.
Narrative: I was working the front pit loading. My lead had started to load the DG in the forward pit and instructed me to load them in pit 2; after we had dispatched the aircraft Ramp Lead had discovered that dry ice had been [erroneously] loaded into pit 2. Operations then proceeded to try to contact the aircraft before it was inflight; he was unable to contact aircraft before it was off the ground.
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.