A B757 landed overweight because a revised routing saved approximately 5;000 pounds of fuel. The cre...

Narrative:

I was captain on flight which originated in mexico. Unknown to me this aircraft landed overweight upon its arrival there. It was not written up at this foreign station as an overweight landing. I do honestly think that the previous crew on the flight did not know that they landed overweight. I flew this aircraft back to our us destination. There was no overweight landing in the logbook. Apparently not until after I arrived in the us did dispatch find out that the aircraft had landed overweight on the previous flight. As stated above there were not any overweight landing inspections performed. Dispatch had blamed the overweight landing as a result of route error? A double back along the route? A computer programming error? In which the flight required more fuel. Part of the problem if this is the case the mexican airport has new arrivals and departures that are not in the database of the aircraft at this time. So if they are not in the aircraft database perhaps they are not correctly loaded into the program that dispatch used for flight and fuel data. If I would have known that the aircraft assigned to me had landed overweight I would of made sure it was written up and had maintenance perform the overweight landing inspection prior to me accepting the aircraft for its flight to the us.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A B757 landed overweight because a revised routing saved approximately 5;000 pounds of fuel. The crew and Dispatch missed the overweight condition until a different crew departed and noticed the discrepancy.

Narrative: I was Captain on flight which originated in Mexico. Unknown to me this aircraft landed overweight upon its arrival there. It was not written up at this foreign station as an overweight landing. I do honestly think that the previous crew on the flight did not know that they landed overweight. I flew this aircraft back to our US destination. There was no overweight landing in the logbook. Apparently not until after I arrived in the US did Dispatch find out that the aircraft had landed overweight on the previous flight. As stated above there were not any overweight landing inspections performed. Dispatch had blamed the overweight landing as a result of route error? A double back along the route? A computer programming error? In which the flight required more fuel. Part of the problem if this is the case the Mexican airport has new arrivals and departures that are not in the database of the aircraft at this time. So if they are not in the aircraft database perhaps they are not correctly loaded into the program that Dispatch used for flight and fuel data. If I would have known that the aircraft assigned to me had landed overweight I would of made sure it was written up and had maintenance perform the overweight landing inspection prior to me accepting the aircraft for its flight to the US.

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.

Attributes
ACN	859676
Time
Date	200911
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZZ.Airport
State Reference	FO
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B757-200
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Landing Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying Captain
Person 2
Function	Dispatcher
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Weight And Balance

A B757 landed overweight because a revised routing saved approximately 5;000 pounds of fuel. The crew and dispatch missed the overweight condition until a different crew departed and noticed the discrepancy.