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An air carrier maintenance technician reported a health and safety concern over a delay in addressing mosquitos in the cabin after a flight from buenos aires.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1373252 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201607 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Widebody Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Technician |
| Qualification | Maintenance Airframe Maintenance Powerplant |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown |
Narrative:
With the advent of zika virus; a safety concern has been brought to my attention as it relates to company policies; our deferral process; and/or handling of situations surrounding mosquitos and health issues surrounding them. [An aircraft] arrived from buenos aires. The aircraft had a write up of; 'in excess of 30 mosquitos throughout the cabin.' there was also a note stating that it had been cleaned on a hardstand in buenos aires with cabin doors open. There were 2 issues with this. The first is [a maintenance directive] item was issued for insect service (instead of being fumigated immediately) and secondly the work has still not been accomplished. With all the information of zika virus coming out of south america; wouldn't it be prudent to take care of this immediately instead of exposing our employees and customers to a possible known virus?
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: An air carrier Maintenance Technician reported a health and safety concern over a delay in addressing mosquitos in the cabin after a flight from Buenos Aires.
Narrative: With the advent of Zika virus; a safety concern has been brought to my attention as it relates to company policies; our deferral process; and/or handling of situations surrounding mosquitos and health issues surrounding them. [An aircraft] arrived from Buenos Aires. The aircraft had a write up of; 'in excess of 30 mosquitos throughout the cabin.' There was also a note stating that it had been cleaned on a hardstand in Buenos Aires with cabin doors open. There were 2 issues with this. The first is [a maintenance directive] item was issued for insect service (instead of being fumigated immediately) and secondly the work has still not been accomplished. With all the information of Zika virus coming out of South America; wouldn't it be prudent to take care of this immediately instead of exposing our employees and customers to a possible known virus?
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.