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E170 captain reported that a towbar broke during pushback; resulting in a return to the gate.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1729590 |
| Time | |
| Date | 202002 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | EWR.Airport |
| State Reference | NJ |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | EMB ERJ 170/175 ER/LR |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Taxi Parked |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown |
Narrative:
On our flight we got pushed off of the gate. After the push; the ramp crew was taking longer time than usual to disconnect the tow bar upon which I asked them if everything was okay. Their response was everything is okay and they continued disconnecting the tow bar. Once the tow bar was disconnected we got the usual tug tow bar wave off and the rampers went on their way. Me and the first officer started our engines and completed our after start checklist and went on our way to taxiing. Until this time we had no idea what had happened. When we were no.1 for takeoff tower told us to contact ops upon which we came to know that the ramp crew had snapped the tow bar and ops wanted us to taxi back and park on the hard stand for the maintenance crew to take a look at the airplane. I told them that the hard stand is not going to work for us as maintenance has to sign the logbook after they are completed inspecting the aircraft and that we need a gate to park on which we got a gate.once we were at the gate maintenance took a look at the airplane; signed the logbook; and gave us the green signal saying everything is okay and we can continue on our way. All this delay and the safety hazard could have been resolved way before if the ramp crew did their job properly by telling us earlier that the tow bar had snapped and we could have called maintenance on time.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: E170 Captain reported that a towbar broke during pushback; resulting in a return to the gate.
Narrative: On our flight we got pushed off of the gate. After the push; the ramp crew was taking longer time than usual to disconnect the tow bar upon which I asked them if everything was okay. Their response was everything is okay and they continued disconnecting the tow bar. Once the tow bar was disconnected we got the usual tug tow bar wave off and the rampers went on their way. Me and the First Officer started our engines and completed our After Start checklist and went on our way to taxiing. Until this time we had no idea what had happened. When we were No.1 for takeoff tower told us to contact ops upon which we came to know that the ramp crew had snapped the tow bar and ops wanted us to taxi back and park on the hard stand for the maintenance crew to take a look at the airplane. I told them that the hard stand is not going to work for us as maintenance has to sign the logbook after they are completed inspecting the aircraft and that we need a gate to park on which we got a gate.Once we were at the gate maintenance took a look at the airplane; signed the logbook; and gave us the green signal saying everything is okay and we can continue on our way. All this delay and the safety hazard could have been resolved way before if the ramp crew did their job properly by telling us earlier that the tow bar had snapped and we could have called maintenance on time.
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.