B737 crew flew with an open maintenance write-up left from the terminating crew the night before.

Attributes
ACN	1316024
Time
Date	201512
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 189 Flight Crew Type 6400
Person 2
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 131 Flight Crew Type 12400
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

During the originating preflight; the first officer seat is saturated with tasks that prevent a thorough examination of the logbook. If there are discrepancies the captain's seat many times becomes saturated. There is a level of trust that has to be maintained between the crew members that tasks are being accomplished. Often various tasks are not verified between the crew members that tasks due to lack of time. We both missed an open writeup left from the terminating crew the night before. Apparently there was no maintenance available when the writeup was made and also the captain who wrote up the discrepancy never followed through with maintenance control after writing up the discrepancy. We failed to catch the open writeup during our preflight.I feel like there could be a better distribution of preflight tasks divided between crew members to facilitate better checks and balances of tasks.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 crew flew with an open maintenance write-up left from the terminating crew the night before.

Narrative: During the originating preflight; the First Officer seat is saturated with tasks that prevent a thorough examination of the logbook. If there are discrepancies the Captain's seat many times becomes saturated. There is a level of trust that has to be maintained between the crew members that tasks are being accomplished. Often various tasks are not verified between the crew members that tasks due to lack of time. We both missed an open writeup left from the terminating Crew the night before. Apparently there was no Maintenance available when the writeup was made and also the Captain who wrote up the discrepancy never followed through with Maintenance Control after writing up the discrepancy. We failed to catch the open writeup during our preflight.I feel like there could be a better distribution of preflight tasks divided between Crew Members to facilitate better checks and balances of tasks.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.