<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1674220, August 2019

Dispatcher reported being out of the loop when a MEL was not listed in the dispatchers software and was missing from the flight release.

Attributes
ACN	1674220
Time
Date	201908
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 Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Dispatcher
Qualification	Dispatch Dispatcher
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural MEL Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

MEL X not showing on dispatch software for aircraft X at time of release. Amd for fuel onboard given to crew before departure and crew did not mentioned that the MEL was missing from the flight release. I became aware when preparing the return flight release for ZZZ-ZZZ1 and that is when I noticed that aircraft X had a MEL which was not listed on the previous ZZZ1-ZZZ flight.mel's needs to be updated in the dispatcher software more accurately and pic needs to pay more attention to their flight release/logbook in regards of mels.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Dispatcher reported being out of the loop when a MEL was not listed in the Dispatchers software and was missing from the flight release.

Narrative: MEL X not showing on dispatch software for Aircraft X at time of release. AMD for fuel onboard given to crew before departure and crew did not mentioned that the MEL was missing from the flight release. I became aware when preparing the return flight release for ZZZ-ZZZ1 and that is when I noticed that Aircraft X had a MEL which was not listed on the previous ZZZ1-ZZZ flight.Mel's needs to be updated in the dispatcher software more accurately and pic needs to pay more attention to their flight release/logbook in regards of MELs.

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.