<< >> NASA ASRS Report 850771, September 2009

A B777 captain flying over greenland on an international flight from europe to the us realized his aircraft did not have the required supplemental oxygen for their unusual northerly route.

Attributes
ACN	850771
Time
Date	200909
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B777-200
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	Oceanic
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Oxygen System/Pax
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200 Flight Crew Total 22000 Flight Crew Type 3500
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

After flying over greenland we discovered our B777 did not have supplemental oxygen required when north of 68 degrees latitude. A route this far north when flying from fra to our destination is very unusual for us. Talking with the dispatcher that was on duty after we landed; I found out that the new flight planning program does not take into account if the aircraft has supplemental oxygen. This oversight should be corrected to prevent a recurrence of this nature.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A B777 Captain flying over Greenland on an International flight from Europe to the U.S. realized his aircraft did not have the required supplemental oxygen for their unusual northerly route.

Narrative: After flying over Greenland we discovered our B777 did not have supplemental oxygen required when north of 68 degrees latitude. A route this far north when flying from FRA to our destination is very unusual for us. Talking with the Dispatcher that was on duty after we landed; I found out that the new flight planning program does not take into account if the aircraft has supplemental oxygen. This oversight should be corrected to prevent a recurrence of this nature.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.