A B757 captain completed the all flaps up landing checklist with only a trailing edge flap asymmetry...

Narrative:

On descent when flaps 1 selected te flap asym EICAS message and trailing edge light displayed. Ran trailing edge flap asymmetry checklist. Then mistakenly accomplished the all flaps and slats up landing checklist which resulted in us landing at vref 30+50 instead of the correct speed of vref 30+40. At the end of the trailing edge flap asymmetry checklist it directs 'if the 'le' slat asym or 'le' slat disagree message appears: accomplish the all flaps and slats up landing checklist'. I failed to notice the checklist was referring to a le slat asym when in fact all I had was a te flap asym. In retrospect I was expecting this checklist to deal with only the te flap problem and my expectation bias was toward this problem. This seems to me a very likely mistake one could make in the heat of the moment; when an abbreviated format is used. In order to prevent such a mistake from being made in the future this line in the checklist might be highlighted and or underlined to read le (leading edge) slat asym/disagree. The lesson I learned was to take my time with the checklist especially when abbreviations are being used.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A B757 Captain completed the ALL FLAPS UP LANDING Checklist with only a Trailing Edge Flap asymmetry EICAS resulting in a higher landing speed than needed. An emergency was declared.

Narrative: On descent when flaps 1 selected TE FLAP ASYM EICAS message and TRAILING EDGE light displayed. Ran TRAILING EDGE FLAP ASYMMETRY checklist. Then mistakenly accomplished the ALL FLAPS AND SLATS UP LANDING checklist which resulted in us landing at VREF 30+50 instead of the correct speed of VREF 30+40. At the end of the TRAILING EDGE FLAP ASYMMETRY checklist it directs 'if the 'LE' SLAT ASYM or 'LE' SLAT DISAGREE message appears: Accomplish the ALL FLAPS AND SLATS UP LANDING checklist'. I failed to notice the checklist was referring to a LE SLAT ASYM when in fact all I had was a TE FLAP ASYM. In retrospect I was expecting this checklist to deal with only the TE FLAP problem and my expectation bias was toward this problem. This seems to me a very likely mistake one could make in the heat of the moment; when an abbreviated format is used. In order to prevent such a mistake from being made in the future this line in the checklist might be highlighted and or underlined to read LE (LEADING EDGE) SLAT ASYM/DISAGREE. The lesson I learned was to take my time with the checklist especially when abbreviations are being used.

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	863060
Time
Date	200912
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B757-200
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Vectors
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Trailing Edge Flap
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 65 Flight Crew Total 8700 Flight Crew Type 200
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

A B757 captain completed the all flaps up landing checklist with only a trailing edge flap asymmetry EICAS resulting in a higher landing speed than needed. An emergency was declared.