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Commercial airline lead technician reported documentation discrepancies during shipping and receiving of aircraft parts due to confusing company handling procedures.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1676888 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201908 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | No Aircraft |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Lead Technician Parts / Stores Personnel |
| Qualification | Maintenance Airframe Maintenance Powerplant |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Maintenance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
An aircraft part going [from] ZZZ that was not hazmat. On paper work it said hazmat. It is not hazmat if it come from vendor. This part was checked by looking and smelling and computer that it came from vendor. This makes it a not hazmat; but paperwork from window says hazmat. Policy is to check if from vendor it is not hazmat to get the parts out on time. He did that. We have different policy on shipping potential hazmat. It depend on were the part is going. If it is a potential hazmat; we use to ship it like a domestic flight. We check to see; smell; [and check] computer work to see if it is hazmat by policy. Now today; they say if it is potential hazmat going overseas; ship it as it was hazmat. We would like some help in this. We really do not have a great idea at this time but we need to report this matter.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Commercial airline Lead Technician reported documentation discrepancies during shipping and receiving of aircraft parts due to confusing company handling procedures.
Narrative: An aircraft part going [from] ZZZ that was not Hazmat. On paper work it said Hazmat. It is not Hazmat if it come from vendor. This part was checked by looking and smelling and computer that it came from vendor. This makes it a not Hazmat; but paperwork from window says Hazmat. Policy is to check if from vendor it is not Hazmat to get the parts out on time. He did that. We have different policy on shipping potential Hazmat. It depend on were the part is going. If it is a potential Hazmat; we use to ship it like a domestic flight. We check to see; smell; [and check] computer work to see if it is Hazmat by policy. Now today; they say if it is potential Hazmat going overseas; ship it as it was Hazmat. We would like some help in this. We really do not have a great idea at this time but we need to report this matter.
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.