2003-06 · NASA ASRS report 586012
THE CREW RECEIVING ACFT AFTER OVER WT LNDG DID NOT NOTICE THERE WAS NO OVERWEIGHT LNDG INSPECTION COMPLETE AND LOGGED IN MAINT LOG.
I FLEW FROM OAK TO LAS WHERE WE WERE INVOLVED IN AN UNSCHEDULED ACFT SWAP (I WAS ADVISED ON THE RELEASE TO EXPECT THE SWAP). WE HUSTLED OVER TO THE NEXT ACFT AND STARTED TO GET THE ACFT READY TO BOARD. THE FLT WAS GOING TO BE CLOSE TO FULL. AS I CHKED THE LOGBOOK I SAW WHERE THE ACFT HAD RETURNED AFTER TKOF BECAUSE THE LED'S (LEADING EDGE DEVICES) DIDN'T RETRACT. THERE WAS 1 WRITE-UP AND IT MENTIONED THE LED'S (LEADING EDGE DEVICES) AND THE ACFT WT UPON LNDG HAD BEEN 133000 LBS. I READ THE 'CLRING' PORTION OF THE WRITE-UP AND IT HAD THE USUAL LISTINGS OF WORK PER MAINT MANUALS; ETC. I SAW THE HVY ACFT LNDG OF COURSE; BUT BEING IN A LITTLE HURRY TO GET GOING TO PDX I JUST ASSUMED EVERYTHING WAS DONE. I WAS WRONG. I FLEW THE ACFT 2 LEGS. THE NEXT CAPT TOOK THE TIME TO CHK IT OUT AND FOUND THE ERROR. AN 'OVERWT LNDG' INSPECTION HAD NOT BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. AS I LOOK AT THIS EVENT I FEEL AS THOUGH I MISSED A GOOD CHANCE TO MAKE A 'GOOD CATCH.' I HAD THE FEELING OF SOMETHING ODD ABOUT THE LOGBOOK ENTRIES; BUT I WAS IN A HURRY TO KEEP THE ACFT ON-TIME THAT I JUST IGNORED IT. A SIMPLE CALL TO MAINT CTL TO DISCUSS THE WRITE-UPS WOULD HAVE SOLVED THE WHOLE THING. SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FROM ACN 586013: WE STARTED AN AM TRIP FROM OAK ENDING IN GEG; THROUGH LAS-PDX. IN LAS; WE WERE INVOLVED IN AN ACFT SWAP. WE GOT TO OUR DEP GATE AND PROMPTLY PERFORMED OUR PREFLT DUTIES TO DEPART TO PDX AND GEG; WHICH WE DID. IN FILLING OUT THE ACFT LOGBOOK; I NOTICED THE RETURN TO ARPT WRITE-UP FOR A LEADING EDGE DEVICE WRITE UP THAT WAS REPAIRED BY OUR MAINT IN LAS AND RETURNED TO SVC FOR US TO FLY TO PDX. THEREFORE I ASSUMED IT WAS OK TO FLY. WHEN WE ARRIVED IN GEG; THE SUBSEQUENT CREW CAUGHT THE OVERWT LNDG INSPECTION REQUIREMENT AND CALLED AND INFORMED THE CAPT WHO CALLED ME AND INFORMED ME OF THE SIT.
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