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A helicopter due to change of routing by a customer caused the tail rotor retaining nut re-torque time to be overflown by 1 hour 23 mins.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 638277 |
| Time | |
| Date | 200411 |
| Day | Thu |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201 To 1800 |
| Place | |
| State Reference | LA |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Operator | common carrier : air taxi |
| Make Model Name | Helicopter |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 135 |
| Flight Phase | cruise : level |
| Flight Plan | VFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Affiliation | company : air taxi |
| Function | flight crew : captain oversight : pic |
| Qualification | pilot : instrument pilot : commercial |
| Experience | flight time last 90 days : 250 flight time total : 18000 flight time type : 4000 |
| ASRS Report | 638277 |
| Person 2 | |
| Affiliation | company : air taxi |
| Function | flight crew : first officer |
| Qualification | pilot : atp |
| Experience | flight time last 90 days : 200 flight time total : 12000 flight time type : 8412 |
| ASRS Report | 638215 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | aircraft equipment problem : less severe non adherence : far non adherence : published procedure |
| Independent Detector | other flight crewa |
| Resolutory Action | none taken : detected after the fact |
| Consequence | other |
| Factors | |
| Maintenance | performance deficiency : inspection performance deficiency : scheduled maintenance performance deficiency : non compliance with legal requirements performance deficiency : logbook entry |
| Supplementary | |
| Problem Areas | Flight Crew Human Performance Company |
| Primary Problem | Flight Crew Human Performance |
Narrative:
Outbound on 4TH flight of day, received a change of routing by customer, and this change of our offshore flight added 2 hours 33 mins to our flight. This caused an overflt of the tail rotor retraining nut re-torque by 1 hour 23 mins. Without this change of routing, this re-torque would have been done before the next flight within the prescribed time.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A HELI DUE TO CHANGE OF ROUTING BY A CUSTOMER CAUSED THE TAIL ROTOR RETAINING NUT RE-TORQUE TIME TO BE OVERFLOWN BY 1 HR 23 MINS.
Narrative: OUTBOUND ON 4TH FLT OF DAY, RECEIVED A CHANGE OF ROUTING BY CUSTOMER, AND THIS CHANGE OF OUR OFFSHORE FLT ADDED 2 HRS 33 MINS TO OUR FLT. THIS CAUSED AN OVERFLT OF THE TAIL ROTOR RETRAINING NUT RE-TORQUE BY 1 HR 23 MINS. WITHOUT THIS CHANGE OF ROUTING, THIS RE-TORQUE WOULD HAVE BEEN DONE BEFORE THE NEXT FLT WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME.
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.