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Confusion on disconnect signal from company ground personnel resulted in aircraft movement damaging tow bar.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 80302 |
| Time | |
| Date | 198801 |
| Day | Fri |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801 To 2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | airport : yyz |
| State Reference | ON |
| Altitude | agl bound lower : 0 agl bound upper : 0 |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | Marginal |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Operator | common carrier : air carrier |
| Make Model Name | Large Transport, Low Wing, 3 Turbojet Eng |
| Flight Phase | ground : preflight |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Affiliation | company : air carrier |
| Function | flight crew : captain oversight : pic |
| Qualification | pilot : atp |
| Experience | flight time last 90 days : 110 flight time total : 19000 |
| ASRS Report | 80302 |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | flight crew : first officer |
| Qualification | pilot : commercial pilot : instrument |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | non adherence other other anomaly other |
| Independent Detector | other flight crewa |
| Resolutory Action | none taken : detected after the fact |
| Consequence | Other |
| Supplementary | |
| Primary Problem | Ambiguous |
| Air Traffic Incident | other |
Narrative:
Tow bar damaged during taxi because of misunderstanding between tug driver, signal man, and pilot. No damage to person or aircraft. Aircraft was inspected and released for flight.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: CONFUSION ON DISCONNECT SIGNAL FROM CGP RESULTED IN ACFT MOVEMENT DAMAGING TOW BAR.
Narrative: TOW BAR DAMAGED DURING TAXI BECAUSE OF MISUNDERSTANDING BETWEEN TUG DRIVER, SIGNAL MAN, AND PLT. NO DAMAGE TO PERSON OR ACFT. ACFT WAS INSPECTED AND RELEASED FOR FLT.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of August 2007 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.