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Maintenance personnel reported inadvertently activating the aircraft cabin door slide while working on it.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1623600 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201902 |
| Environment | |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | A320 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Technician |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | Technician |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Maintenance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
I was asked to be a safety observer for a slide change on door 2L on aircraft X. I mentioned I had never done the task before; so we went through the slide checklist and removal task card together to check if we had to install anything other than the bottle pin. Upon installing the bottle pin and attempting to show one of the technicians where and how to take the girt bar out. As soon as the handle on the door was touched; it began hissing and almost pulled one of the technicians out of the plane. The door bottle blew the door wide open and the slide deployed.please make a sign off for the door assist bottle pin to be installed. It is very easily overlooked if being read by an inexperienced person.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Maintenance personnel reported inadvertently activating the aircraft cabin door slide while working on it.
Narrative: I was asked to be a safety observer for a slide change on door 2L on Aircraft X. I mentioned I had never done the task before; so we went through the slide checklist and removal task card together to check if we had to install anything other than the bottle pin. Upon installing the bottle pin and attempting to show one of the technicians where and how to take the girt bar out. As soon as the handle on the door was touched; it began hissing and almost pulled one of the technicians out of the plane. The door bottle blew the door wide open and the slide deployed.Please make a sign off for the door assist bottle pin to be installed. It is very easily overlooked if being read by an inexperienced person.
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.