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An air carrier A320 captain described a fatiguing situation resulting in refusal to continue the assignment.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 848217 |
| Time | |
| Date | 200908 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ORD.Airport |
| State Reference | IL |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | A320 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Not Flying |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 170 Flight Crew Total 13650 Flight Crew Type 2600 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | No Specific Anomaly Occurred All Types |
Narrative:
I see three main factors contributing to this fatigue call. 1) my previous trips for at least a month have been 'earlies'; getting up at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning. My body clock was adjusted to this. This trip started out as an early; but then shifted to a late. While I tried to sleep in on the last day of this trip; my body was wide awake at 4:00am; as usual. 2) I did not get a very good night's sleep two nights before this event due to the hotel reeking of stale smoke and mold. The night before this event; I did not get uninterrupted sleep due to noisy saturday night guests at the hotel; and the incessant sirens going down the street in front of the hotel all night long. 3) the flight prior to this event was a difficult weather divert. We had no supplies on board (segment 2 of a 2 segment galley). The one and only fuel truck ran out of fuel twice before he finished our fuel load over three hours after landing. It took quite a bit of negotiating to even be able to get the station to allow us to park near the terminal so my passengers could get off the plane and get some food and water. I recognized that the symptoms of fatigue were setting in so I made the fatigue call to the crew desk.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: An air carrier A320 Captain described a fatiguing situation resulting in refusal to continue the assignment.
Narrative: I see three main factors contributing to this fatigue call. 1) My previous trips for at least a month have been 'earlies'; getting up at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning. My body clock was adjusted to this. This trip started out as an early; but then shifted to a late. While I tried to sleep in on the last day of this trip; my body was wide awake at 4:00am; as usual. 2) I did not get a very good night's sleep two nights before this event due to the hotel reeking of stale smoke and mold. The night before this event; I did not get uninterrupted sleep due to noisy Saturday night guests at the hotel; and the incessant sirens going down the street in front of the hotel all night long. 3) The flight prior to this event was a difficult weather divert. We had no supplies on board (segment 2 of a 2 segment galley). The one and only fuel truck ran out of fuel twice before he finished our fuel load over three hours after landing. It took quite a bit of negotiating to even be able to get the station to allow us to park near the terminal so my passengers could get off the plane and get some food and water. I recognized that the symptoms of fatigue were setting in so I made the fatigue call to the Crew Desk.
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.