A flight plan issued for a B737-200 did not list the current open deferred maintenance items.

Attributes
ACN	371780
Time
Date	199706
Day	Wed
Local Time Of Day	1201 To 1800
Place
Locale Reference	airport : mco
State Reference	FL
Altitude	agl bound lower : 0 agl bound upper : 0
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Operator	common carrier : air carrier
Make Model Name	B737-200
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	ground : parked ground : preflight
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Affiliation	company : air carrier
Function	flight crew : captain oversight : pic
Qualification	pilot : atp pilot : cfi pilot : flight engineer
Experience	flight time last 90 days : 150 flight time total : 11000 flight time type : 17000
ASRS Report	371780
Person 2
Affiliation	company : air carrier
Function	flight crew : first officer
Qualification	pilot : instrument pilot : commercial
Events
Anomaly	non adherence : far non adherence : published procedure other anomaly other
Independent Detector	other flight crewa
Resolutory Action	none taken : detected after the fact
Consequence	Other
Supplementary
Air Traffic Incident	other

Narrative:

Flight plan did not have item(south) listed, as these were new items, assumed dispatcher had information. Found out on next flight plan dispatcher had no knowledge of item(south). Maintenance failed to notify dispatch.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A FLT PLAN ISSUED FOR A B737-200 DID NOT LIST THE CURRENT OPEN DEFERRED MAINT ITEMS.

Narrative: FLT PLAN DID NOT HAVE ITEM(S) LISTED, AS THESE WERE NEW ITEMS, ASSUMED DISPATCHER HAD INFO. FOUND OUT ON NEXT FLT PLAN DISPATCHER HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF ITEM(S). MAINT FAILED TO NOTIFY DISPATCH.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2007 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.