Narrative:

I was called out to aircraft with a gate call. Pilot reported window wipers were running on their own; without the switch turned on. I went out to troubleshoot and found the first officer's wiper control panel was wet on the back side. I was advised by my supervisor and maintenance control to isolate the leak. I removed the trim on the first officer's side of the flight deck to find the leaks. I noted leaks in multiple places; and informed maintenance control. After a few hours of back and forth; maintenance control telling us to pull the windshield without a hangar and in the rain and what not; they finally decided to get a ferry permit. I asked my supervisor and maintenance control if I needed to document any of the work done with the trim/windshield control panel and was informed no. I asked what to do with the trim pieces and was informed by my supervisor to store them anywhere on the plane; as long as we didn't block an exit. Maintenance control stated that they wanted the new wiper control installed in the plane as well; so I did. Maintenance control had me fax the log page with the original write-up and the next blank page. I did that; and they wrote down the signoff for the item on the log pages. I was informed to copy everything down; as written then sign it off. I was then informed that the airplane was 'good to go.' I copied everything down then signed it off. We received the ferry permit; put it with the logbook; and returned to the plane. I stuck around till the pilots showed up; answered all their questions and watched them take off. Cause: because I did what I was told to do. It was my understanding that the ferry permit covered all work done; since it was still broke. Supplemental information from acn 823525: an open discrepancy was faxed to ZZZ1 to be signed; which I did sign for the aircraft to be ferried from ZZZ1 to ZZZ2 to fix leak.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Two Mechanics report about a pilot reporting the window wipers on their CRJ-200 were running on their own at the gate. First Officer's wiper control panel was wet inside the cockpit. Aircraft was ferried to replace leaking window.

Narrative: I was called out to aircraft with a gate call. Pilot reported window wipers were running on their own; without the switch turned on. I went out to troubleshoot and found the First Officer's wiper control panel was wet on the back side. I was advised by my Supervisor and maintenance control to isolate the leak. I removed the trim on the First Officer's side of the flight deck to find the leaks. I noted leaks in multiple places; and informed maintenance control. After a few hours of back and forth; maintenance control telling us to pull the windshield without a hangar and in the rain and what not; they finally decided to get a ferry permit. I asked my Supervisor and maintenance control if I needed to document any of the work done with the trim/windshield control panel and was informed no. I asked what to do with the trim pieces and was informed by my Supervisor to store them anywhere on the plane; as long as we didn't block an exit. Maintenance control stated that they wanted the new wiper control installed in the plane as well; so I did. Maintenance control had me fax the log page with the original write-up and the next blank page. I did that; and they wrote down the signoff for the item on the log pages. I was informed to copy everything down; as written then sign it off. I was then informed that the airplane was 'good to go.' I copied everything down then signed it off. We received the ferry permit; put it with the logbook; and returned to the plane. I stuck around till the pilots showed up; answered all their questions and watched them take off. Cause: Because I did what I was told to do. It was my understanding that the ferry permit covered all work done; since it was still broke. Supplemental information from ACN 823525: An open discrepancy was faxed to ZZZ1 to be signed; which I did sign for the aircraft to be ferried from ZZZ1 to ZZZ2 to fix leak.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.