COMMUTER FO DISCOVERS WALLET MISSING DURING FLT. PLT CERTIFICATE AND MEDICAL NOT ON HIS PERSON. ACI INSPECTOR DOES RAMP CHK.

Date: 1994-05 · Aircraft: Commercial Fixed Wing · Phase: ground

Anomalies: deviation-discrepancy-procedural-far

Synopsis

COMMUTER FO DISCOVERS WALLET MISSING DURING FLT. PLT CERTIFICATE AND MEDICAL NOT ON HIS PERSON. ACI INSPECTOR DOES RAMP CHK.

Narrative

I WAS SERVING AS FO ON FLT FROM GREGG COUNTY ARPT IN LONGVIEW; TX; DALLAS LOVE FIELD; DALLAS; TEXAS. AFTER PREFLT OF THE ACFT AND DISPATCH OF FLT; CAPT AND I TOOK OFF FOR DALLAS LOVE FIELD. DURING THE FLT ABOUT 25 MINS OUT OF DALLAS; I REACHED FOR MY WALLET; AT WHICH TIME I REALIZED IT WAS MISSING. AFTER CHKING AROUND MY SEAT; I ADVISED CAPT OF MY SIT AND I RADIOED DISPATCH IN DALLAS THAT I COULD NOT FIND MY WALLET AND THAT I WOULD NEED A COPY OF MY LICENSE AND MEDICAL WHEN WE ARRIVED. I WAS TOLD ON MY CHKRIDE; BY CHIEF PLT; THAT IN THE EVENT THAT WE EVER LOST OUR LICENSE OR MEDICAL; A COPY WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE UNTIL PROPER ACTION TO GET ANOTHER WAS COMPLETED. WHEN I ARRIVED ON THE GND IN DALLAS; I PROCURED THE COPY FROM DISPATCH; AND PROCEEDED TO CONTINUE MY DUTIES UNTIL I COULD FIND MY WALLET. UPON ARR IN DALLAS AS WELL; OUR FAA POI WAS GIVING A LINE CHK TO OUR NEXT FLT. HE ASKED TO SEE MY LICENSE AND MEDICAL AT WHICH TIME I GAVE HIM THE COPY AND EXPLAINED THAT I HAD LOST MY WALLET THIS MORNING SOMETIME. HE SAID THE DOCUMENT WAS NOT OFFICIAL AND TOLD ME I COULD NOT TAKE THE NEXT FLT. I DEADHEADED BACK TO GREGG COUNTY ARPT WHERE I BEGAN A SEARCH FOR MY WALLET. UPON RETRACING MY STEPS FOR THE MORNING; I GOT TO MY APARTMENT COMPLEX WHERE I HAD DROPPED MY FLT BAG AND ACCESSORIES; AND AS WELL AS MY WALLET AT 0500. IT HAD FALLEN UNDER MY STAIRWELL AND WHEN I PICKED UP MY THINGS; I DID NOT SEE IT. I RECOVERED MY WALLET; MEDICAL; AND LICENSE. I BELIEVE UPON DETERMINING ENRTE TO DALLAS LOVE FIELD THAT MY WALLET WAS MISSING; I DID ALL THAT WAS POSSIBLE TO CORRECT THIS ACTION.

Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.