Following multiple maintenance delays and false starts for a 'red eye' flight; the first officer of ...

Narrative:

I reported for duty this evening for a scheduled departure an hour later. The aircraft was at the gate being worked on by mechanics for an inbound writeup. It took three hours for us to push and subsequently return to the gate a half hour later with the same failure being displayed. The aircraft was repaired an additional hour later but during this time another unrelated failure took place. The failure required a new flight plan and added fuel for operation at lower altitudes. It was at this time I calculated my awake time from the previous day and concluded that if all went well; as it hadn't up to this point; I would have been up well over 24 hours while landing. Because of the ongoing maintenance items and the uncertainty of our departure time I felt it prudent to relent to my physical condition of certain fatigue if I were to continue. I called the crew desk and advised them of my current condition of fatigue.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Following multiple maintenance delays and false starts for a 'red eye' flight; the First Officer of an A320 felt he would be physiologically impaired due to fatigue at their likely arrival time at destination and refused to fly due to fatigue.

Narrative: I reported for duty this evening for a scheduled departure an hour later. The aircraft was at the gate being worked on by mechanics for an inbound writeup. It took three hours for us to push and subsequently return to the gate a half hour later with the same failure being displayed. The aircraft was repaired an additional hour later but during this time another unrelated failure took place. The failure required a new flight plan and added fuel for operation at lower altitudes. It was at this time I calculated my awake time from the previous day and concluded that if all went well; as it hadn't up to this point; I would have been up well over 24 hours while landing. Because of the ongoing maintenance items and the uncertainty of our departure time I felt it prudent to relent to my physical condition of certain fatigue if I were to continue. I called the Crew Desk and advised them of my current condition of fatigue.

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.

Attributes
ACN	1018285
Time
Date	201206
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A320
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 130 Flight Crew Total 10000 Flight Crew Type 4100
Events
Anomaly	Other Fatigue

Following multiple maintenance delays and false starts for a 'red eye' flight; the first officer of an A320 felt he would be physiologically impaired due to fatigue at their likely arrival time at destination and refused to fly due to fatigue.