Narrative:

I was working ape hi radar. I had a d-side working at my sector with me. A huge area of thunderstorms were north of my sector surrounding dtw area airports. I was working the dtw arrivals northbound. At the time the dtw arrivals were required to be only on the gemni arrival 10 miles in trail. The super high sector; lck sh; and high sector south of me; unv hi; were feeding me dtw arrivals that still needed to be tweaked to meet the spacing requirements. During the spacing and working of traffic in the sector; ZOB rav hi called and said they needed all the dtw arrivals now on the weeda arrival. My d-side and I started moving the aircraft to this arrival west of where the aircraft were. We told lck and unv that the aircraft needed to be swapped routes. ZOB rav hi called again and said that they needed all the aircraft on 360 degree headings and all slowed to 250 knots. We once again started working to provide rav with their requirements. We told lck and unv that we needed to slow the back aircraft first so we can keep the spacing. During this time I frequency switched air carrier X to rav hi without a hand off. Rav hi called our sector and my d-side answered them. They told him to flash the hand off on air carrier X to them. I looked and saw air carrier X still in my airspace slant zeroed (indicating I frequency switched him) without a hand off to rav hi. Air carrier X's data block did have a speed and heading entered in the fourth line of the data block. I then flashed the data block to rav hi and they took the hand off. Recommendation; I take great pride in my work and am dismayed that this happened. It is my own fault that I did not hand off the aircraft to the next sector.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: ZID Controller initiated a frequency change to the next sector without completing a hand off; noting weather caused re-routes and DTW in-trail requirements complicated the situation.

Narrative: I was working APE HI RADAR. I had a D-Side working at my sector with me. A huge area of thunderstorms were north of my sector surrounding DTW area airports. I was working the DTW arrivals northbound. At the time the DTW arrivals were required to be only on the GEMNI arrival 10 miles in trail. The super high sector; LCK SH; and high sector south of me; UNV HI; were feeding me DTW arrivals that still needed to be tweaked to meet the spacing requirements. During the spacing and working of traffic in the sector; ZOB RAV HI called and said they needed all the DTW arrivals now on the WEEDA arrival. My D-side and I started moving the aircraft to this arrival west of where the aircraft were. We told LCK and UNV that the aircraft needed to be swapped routes. ZOB RAV HI called again and said that they needed all the aircraft on 360 degree headings and all slowed to 250 knots. We once again started working to provide RAV with their requirements. We told LCK and UNV that we needed to slow the back aircraft first so we can keep the spacing. During this time I frequency switched Air Carrier X to RAV HI without a hand off. RAV HI called our sector and my D-Side answered them. They told him to flash the hand off on Air Carrier X to them. I looked and saw Air Carrier X still in my airspace slant zeroed (indicating I frequency switched him) without a hand off to RAV HI. Air Carrier X's data block did have a speed and heading entered in the fourth line of the data block. I then flashed the data block to RAV HI and they took the hand off. Recommendation; I take great pride in my work and am dismayed that this happened. It is my own fault that I did not hand off the aircraft to the next sector.

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.