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Maintenance technician reported a passenger being allowed to vomit from the jet bridge to the ramp below then board the aircraft and depart.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1330024 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201601 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Light | Dusk |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Regional Jet 900 (CRJ900) |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Technician |
| Qualification | Maintenance Airframe Maintenance Powerplant |
| Experience | Maintenance Technician 36 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Illness |
Narrative:
I was working this flight and was accomplishing a bird strike inspection and was almost blasted with vomit from a passenger that was allowed to stand on platform between aircraft and jetbridge with canopy retracted. This just seems be all wrong to me; for a crew to allow a passenger to stand where he was; off the aircraft to vomit numerous times onto ground; that's my work area; where I work; it's disgusting; then allow the passenger to re-board and fly out sick next to other passengers. Who knows if the passenger has a disease of some sort; after reading the protocol to follow from cdc; the incident wasn't handled properly; isn't this a public health issue. Then the vomit was allowed to stay on ground for about 3 hours; no concern for clean-up; till a midnight crew chief refused to accomplish any maintenance on aircraft from that gate.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Maintenance technician reported a passenger being allowed to vomit from the jet bridge to the ramp below then board the aircraft and depart.
Narrative: I was working this flight and was accomplishing a bird strike inspection and was almost blasted with vomit from a passenger that was allowed to stand on platform between aircraft and jetbridge with canopy retracted. This just seems be all wrong to me; for a crew to allow a passenger to stand where he was; off the aircraft to vomit numerous times onto ground; that's my work area; where I work; it's disgusting; then allow the passenger to re-board and fly out sick next to other passengers. Who knows if the passenger has a disease of some sort; after reading the protocol to follow from CDC; the incident wasn't handled properly; isn't this a public health issue. Then the vomit was allowed to stay on ground for about 3 hours; no concern for clean-up; till a midnight crew chief refused to accomplish any maintenance on aircraft from that gate.
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.