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Flight crew for air carrier reported they flew beyond the maximum allowed flight time during 7 day period.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1680077 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201907 |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B747-400 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Other all |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200 Flight Crew Total 14700 Flight Crew Type 5000 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
I operated flight from ZZZ to ZZZ1 and from ZZZ1 to ZZZ2 on behalf of [company]; an far part 121 air carrier. The first flight lasted 2 hours and 11 minutes while the second flight was 6 hours and 13 minutes; all block times. The two flights put my total hours flown in 7 consecutive days at 38 hours and 01 minutes. This violates 14 crash fire rescue equipment 121.471(a)(3) which states that no certificate holder conducting domestic operations may schedule any flight crewmember and no flight crewmember may accept an assignment for flight time in scheduled air transport or in other commercial flying if that crewmember's total flight time in all commercial flying will exceed 30 hours in any 7 consecutive days. I was not aware of this incident as at the time it happened. I became aware of it yesterday; through an email from the [safety and regulatory compliance] for [company]. According to the letter; this incident was discovered after a recent internal audit showed that an [company] crew scheduling rule in the aims system that impacts some FAA regulations was inadvertently turned off. [Company] has promptly addressed the problem and has created a long-term plan for a comprehensive fix in order to mitigate future events. I; as a crewmember; will also be more vigilant in the future and duly scrutinize every flight assignment to make sure that I am in compliance with all cfrs before accepting it.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Flight crew for air carrier reported they flew beyond the maximum allowed flight time during 7 day period.
Narrative: I operated flight from ZZZ to ZZZ1 and from ZZZ1 to ZZZ2 on behalf of [Company]; an FAR Part 121 air carrier. The first flight lasted 2 hours and 11 minutes while the second flight was 6 hours and 13 minutes; all block times. The two flights put my total hours flown in 7 consecutive days at 38 hours and 01 minutes. This violates 14 CFR 121.471(a)(3) which states that no certificate holder conducting domestic operations may schedule any flight crewmember and no flight crewmember may accept an assignment for flight time in scheduled air transport or in other commercial flying if that crewmember's total flight time in all commercial flying will exceed 30 hours in any 7 consecutive days. I was not aware of this incident as at the time it happened. I became aware of it yesterday; through an email from the [Safety and Regulatory Compliance] for [Company]. According to the letter; this incident was discovered after a recent internal audit showed that an [Company] crew scheduling rule in the AIMS system that impacts some FAA regulations was inadvertently turned off. [Company] has promptly addressed the problem and has created a long-term plan for a comprehensive fix in order to mitigate future events. I; as a crewmember; will also be more vigilant in the future and duly scrutinize every flight assignment to make sure that I am in compliance with all CFRs before accepting it.
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.