Narrative:

Upon entering the airplane; maintenance was attempting to determine why the airplane had come in with numerous circuit breakers out and collared along with a prominent maintenance flag hanging from the overhead panel circuit breaker panels. The circuit breakers were all associated with the alternate flap system. It appeared the inbound crew had flown in with no alternate flap capability. There was nothing in the logbook explaining why all these circuit breakers were pulled. This resulted in a substantial delay for our departure. The airplane was not released until maintenance learned the reason behind the various circuit breakers being pulled.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A B767-300 arrived at its destination with numerous Alternate Flap circuit breakers pulled. A substantial outbound delay resulted while Maintenance determined the aircraft's status.

Narrative: Upon entering the airplane; Maintenance was attempting to determine why the airplane had come in with numerous circuit breakers out and collared along with a prominent maintenance flag hanging from the overhead panel circuit breaker panels. The circuit breakers were all associated with the alternate flap system. It appeared the inbound crew had flown in with no alternate flap capability. There was nothing in the logbook explaining why all these circuit breakers were pulled. This resulted in a substantial delay for our departure. The airplane was not released until Maintenance learned the reason behind the various circuit breakers being pulled.

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.