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Technician reported disagreement over policy and procedures not complied with during a road trip to remove and replace a main entry door slide.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1715836 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201912 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Dawn |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Escape Slide |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Technician |
| Qualification | Maintenance Airframe Maintenance Powerplant |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Maintenance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
I received a phone call to go on a field trip to ZZZ for a 737 slide change. I accepted without knowing any information as to who was going. Once I got to the hangar I was informed that there was one other mechanic and an inspector going. I informed the supervisor that according to the checklist we have to follow we needed a 3rd mechanic to be the safety observer. He said that we did not need one. I left the room to pull up the paperwork and found that in reference to amm 25-xx-xx-XXX-XXX escape slide pack and cover installation; we had to follow form 46-XXXX; which is escape slide render safe checklist. There it says that we needed the 3rd guy because it takes 2 people to install the slide. I took this information to [operations manager] who was in charge of setting everything up and he then informed me that the vendor who was going to be escorting us on the field would be the safety observer. I didn't think this sounded right but that was their final decision so there was nothing I could do from that point on. We then drove to ZZZ and changed the slide without any incident with the vendor who was escorting us as the safety observer.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Technician reported disagreement over policy and procedures not complied with during a road trip to remove and replace a main entry door slide.
Narrative: I received a phone call to go on a field trip to ZZZ for a 737 slide change. I accepted without knowing any information as to who was going. Once I got to the hangar I was informed that there was one other mechanic and an inspector going. I informed the supervisor that according to the checklist we have to follow we needed a 3rd mechanic to be the safety observer. He said that we did not need one. I left the room to pull up the paperwork and found that in reference to AMM 25-XX-XX-XXX-XXX Escape Slide Pack and Cover Installation; we had to follow form 46-XXXX; which is Escape Slide Render Safe Checklist. There it says that we needed the 3rd guy because it takes 2 people to install the slide. I took this information to [Operations Manager] who was in charge of setting everything up and he then informed me that the vendor who was going to be escorting us on the field would be the safety observer. I didn't think this sounded right but that was their final decision so there was nothing I could do from that point on. We then drove to ZZZ and changed the slide without any incident with the vendor who was escorting us as the safety observer.
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.