A lead mechanic working for a contract maintenance repair station reports about a new floor beam tha...

Attributes
ACN	1014442
Time
Date	201205
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A320
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Component
Aircraft Component	Airframe
Person 1
Function	Lead Technician
Qualification	Maintenance Airframe Maintenance Powerplant
Experience	Maintenance Lead Technician 5 Maintenance Technician 15
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Maintenance Deviation - Procedural FAR

Narrative:

During a shift change; a floor beam was picked up on to continue installation. While working the installation it was found that the floor beam had been forced down over a hi-lok; causing a gouge in the beam in an area where no limits for damage are allowed; the beam was removed. When we came back to work; the same beam had been re-installed. I feel this is a safety issue. This happened at our contract maintenance repair station. This was on air carrier X's A320 aircraft. Two people were heavily involved with this. It was also brought to the attention of the director of maintenance (dom) with no response.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A Lead Mechanic working for a Contract Maintenance Repair Station reports about a new floor beam that had been gouged when forced down over a Hi-Lok during installation on a Customer A320 aircraft. The beam was removed due to no damage allowed; but later found reinstalled.

Narrative: During a shift change; a floor beam was picked up on to continue installation. While working the installation it was found that the floor beam had been forced down over a Hi-Lok; causing a gouge in the beam in an area where no limits for damage are allowed; the beam was removed. When we came back to work; the same beam had been re-installed. I feel this is a safety issue. This happened at our Contract Maintenance Repair Station. This was on Air Carrier X's A320 aircraft. Two people were heavily involved with this. It was also brought to the attention of the Director of Maintenance (DOM) with no response.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 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.

A lead mechanic working for a contract maintenance repair station reports about a new floor beam that had been gouged when forced down over a hi-lok during installation on a customer A320 aircraft. The beam was removed due to no damage allowed; but later found reinstalled.