B757 first officer is informed by the purser that since the company no longer puts dry ice in the be...

Narrative:

During the first pilot crew bathroom break the purser stated and the pilots observed large pools of water on the forward galley floor. The purser said that since the company stopped boarding dry ice to keep the beverage ice frozen (a management cost saving measure of about 2.5 million/year); the beverage ice melts and sloshes out of the bin onto the galley floor during a normal takeoff. This problem is compounded on flights with no galley update/refresh like to the outer hawaiian islands. The purser also stated the aft galley develops the same water hazard during landing with normal deceleration/stopping forces. Apparently the forward galley has the beverage ice bin forward; and the aft galley has the beverage ice bin aft. Without dry ice the beverage ice does not stay frozen. This creates a seriously unsafe working environment for flight attendants and a potentially catastrophic fire safety hazard. The forward galley floor with large pools of standing water is directly over the bay. On a 180 minute ETOPS flight; imagine an in-flight electrical short and fire without a near airport to immediately land. Recommend management reconsider using dry ice to keep beverage ice frozen on long flights and/or for turn flights without a galley refresh.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B757 First Officer is informed by the Purser that since the company no longer puts dry ice in the beverage ice drawer; the ice melts and splashes onto the galley floor during takeoffs and landings.

Narrative: During the first pilot crew bathroom break the Purser stated and the pilots observed large pools of water on the forward galley floor. The Purser said that since the company stopped boarding dry ice to keep the beverage ice frozen (a management cost saving measure of about 2.5 million/year); the beverage ice melts and sloshes out of the bin onto the galley floor during a normal takeoff. This problem is compounded on flights with no galley update/refresh like to the outer Hawaiian Islands. The Purser also stated the aft galley develops the same water hazard during landing with normal deceleration/stopping forces. Apparently the forward galley has the beverage ice bin forward; and the aft galley has the beverage ice bin aft. Without dry ice the beverage ice does not stay frozen. This creates a seriously unsafe working environment for flight attendants and a potentially catastrophic fire safety hazard. The forward galley floor with large pools of standing water is directly over the bay. On a 180 minute ETOPS flight; imagine an in-flight electrical short and fire without a near airport to immediately land. Recommend management reconsider using dry ice to keep beverage ice frozen on long flights and/or for turn flights without a galley refresh.

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	1122686
Time
Date	201310
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	LIH.Airport
State Reference	HI
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B757 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Route In Use	Vectors
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Galley Furnishing
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 165 Flight Crew Total 14700 Flight Crew Type 5800
Events
Anomaly	No Specific Anomaly Occurred All Types

B757 first officer is informed by the purser that since the company no longer puts dry ice in the beverage ice drawer; the ice melts and splashes onto the galley floor during takeoffs and landings.