DISPATCHER RPT ON A B737-400 THAT WAS RERTED OVER AN ETOPS RTE BY ZNY BUT WAS NOT CONFIGURED FOR AN ETOPS OP. PIC HAD ACCEPTED THE RERTE AS HIS CHART WAS AN OUTDATED ONE THAT FAILED TO INDICATE THE 'NO FLY ZONES' FOR HIS ACFT. DISPATCHER FAILED TO CATCH ERROR ON THE FIRST POS RPT.

Date: 1997-12 · Aircraft: B737-400

Anomalies: deviation-discrepancy-procedural-other-unknown|deviation-discrepancy-procedural-published-material-policy|other-unspecified

Synopsis

DISPATCHER RPT ON A B737-400 THAT WAS RERTED OVER AN ETOPS RTE BY ZNY BUT WAS NOT CONFIGURED FOR AN ETOPS OP. PIC HAD ACCEPTED THE RERTE AS HIS CHART WAS AN OUTDATED ONE THAT FAILED TO INDICATE THE 'NO FLY ZONES' FOR HIS ACFT. DISPATCHER FAILED TO CATCH ERROR ON THE FIRST POS RPT.

Narrative

FILED B737-400 (OVERWATER EQUIPPED/NON ETOPS EQUIPPED) FROM PHL TO STT VIA SIE.B24.CHAMP.A300.DDP.B520.TIST. FOR SOME REASON; NEW YORK OCEANIC REISSUED CLRNC AS CHAMP.B24.GABES.A523.DDP. NO MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM EITHER OCEANIC OR FROM FLT'S CAPT OTHER THAN INITIAL POS RPT FROM OCEANIC AT CHAMP. SINCE I WORK THIS FLT ON A DAILY BASIS; I NEVER LOOKED AT ETA TO NEXT RPTING POINT AS I ASSUMED IT WOULD BE HOLMA. THE NEXT POS RPT I RECEIVED WAS ACFT RPTING AT PRUITT WITH ETA NEXT POINT OF GRONN -- NEITHER OF WHICH I RECOGNIZED. COMPARING FLT PLAN; RPTED POS TO COMPANY ISSUED PLOTTING CHART (PLOTTING CHART HAS SHADED AREAS INDICATING BOTH 'NO B737' AND 'ETOPS ONLY' AIRSPACE); I DISCOVERED ACFT WAS GIVEN RERTE BY ATC AND CAPT ACCEPTED NEW RTE. AIRSPACE NOT AUTH DUE ACFT CONFIGN. ONCE IN RANGE OF STT; I QUESTIONED CAPT ON THIS AND WAS ADVISED: 1) WAS NOT ISSUED PLOTTING CHART WITH INTL KIT BY COMPANY PERSONNEL AT PHL. 2) CAPT USED AN OUTDATED CHART; ONE WHICH DID NOT HAVE SHADED AIRSPACE RESTRS (THOSE HE HAD BEEN CARRYING IN HIS FLT BAG AS SPARES). WHEN PLOTTED NEW RTE; DID NOT SEE ACFT NOT EQUIPPED TO USE A523. I DID NOT CATCH RERTE FROM FIRST POS RPT. NEW YORK OCEANIC NEEDS TO SEND COPY OF OCEANIC CLRNC WHEN ISSUED AS GANDER AND SANTA MARIA OCEANIC DOES.

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