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Air carrier ground operations employee reported that unqualified personnel were assigned to air-start an aircraft resulting in extreme risk to personnel and equipment.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1422113 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201702 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Ramp |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown |
Narrative:
We were assigned to perform an air-start for an aircraft with an inoperative APU. The staffing program run by local management assigned this task to completely unqualified personnel. This caused major confusion and extreme risk to the agents and equipment involved. The standard operating procedure is to start aircraft engine number 1. The flight deck started aircraft engine number 2. The airstart unit was connected from the number 2 engine side; causing the agent unhooking the unit to be dangerously close to a running engine.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Air carrier Ground Operations employee reported that unqualified personnel were assigned to air-start an aircraft resulting in extreme risk to personnel and equipment.
Narrative: We were assigned to perform an air-start for an aircraft with an inoperative APU. The staffing program run by local management assigned this task to completely unqualified personnel. This caused major confusion and extreme risk to the agents and equipment involved. The standard operating procedure is to start aircraft engine Number 1. The flight deck started aircraft engine Number 2. The airstart unit was connected from the Number 2 engine side; causing the agent unhooking the unit to be dangerously close to a running engine.
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.