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A corporate jet captain reported flying for several days with no life vests on board.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 889563 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201005 |
| Environment | |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Medium Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Cabin Furnishing |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
I was the captain in charge during the assignment. I was informed a few days after the assignment ended that we had flown without life vests on board. Apparently maintenance had removed them and not replaced them and approved the plane for flight. I did not notice this fact during my interior preflights on any of the days involved. The interior preflight checklist does not list the life vests as an item to be checked. This is a 'gotcha' that should be corrected by adding 'life vests' to the interior preflight checklist. There should also be a mechanism added to the maintenance procedures that doesn't allow the plane to be released after critical equipment has been removed. On a personal level; this one will be added to my personal checklist to never happen again.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A corporate jet Captain reported flying for several days with no life vests on board.
Narrative: I was the Captain in charge during the assignment. I was informed a few days after the assignment ended that we had flown without life vests on board. Apparently maintenance had removed them and not replaced them and approved the plane for flight. I did not notice this fact during my interior preflights on any of the days involved. The interior preflight checklist does not list the life vests as an item to be checked. This is a 'gotcha' that should be corrected by adding 'life vests' to the interior preflight checklist. There should also be a mechanism added to the maintenance procedures that doesn't allow the plane to be released after critical equipment has been removed. On a personal level; this one will be added to my personal checklist to never happen again.
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.