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A maintenance supervisor reports a B747-400 had flown with seven of the eight survival kits for cabin door slides not installed and no logbook entry was made. Survival kits had been inadvertently sent to a slide repack vendor along with slides that were previously deployed during flight attendant certification evacuation drills.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 895854 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201004 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B747-400 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Person 1 | |
| Qualification | Maintenance Airframe Maintenance Powerplant |
| Experience | Maintenance Technician 16.0 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Maintenance Deviation - Procedural FAR |
Narrative:
April 2010; air carrier B747-400 was undergoing flight attendant certification and mini-evacuation drills. Three drills were accomplished with a total of 21 slides being deployed. Survival kits were inadvertently sent to the shop along with the slides for repack at the vendor. Several days after the certification was completed; the aircraft flew a proving run with two legs. [A few days later] during routine maintenance; the cover and slide of door 2R was removed to investigate a pressurization leak.at this time it was discovered that the survival kit was not installed on [door] 2R. We inspected the other doors and found seven of the eight survival kits were missing. The proving flight was accomplished with seven survival kits missing. The slide vendor returned four of the kits immediately and the final three were returned in a few days. All kits were installed on the aircraft but this was done without making logbook [entries]. No additional flights were made prior to all the kits being installed.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A Maintenance Supervisor reports a B747-400 had flown with seven of the eight survival kits for cabin door slides not installed and no logbook entry was made. Survival kits had been inadvertently sent to a slide repack vendor along with slides that were previously deployed during Flight Attendant certification evacuation drills.
Narrative: April 2010; Air Carrier B747-400 was undergoing Flight Attendant certification and mini-evacuation drills. Three drills were accomplished with a total of 21 slides being deployed. Survival kits were inadvertently sent to the shop along with the slides for repack at the vendor. Several days after the certification was completed; the aircraft flew a proving run with two legs. [A few days later] during routine maintenance; the cover and slide of door 2R was removed to investigate a pressurization leak.At this time it was discovered that the survival kit was not installed on [door] 2R. We inspected the other doors and found seven of the eight survival kits were missing. The proving flight was accomplished with seven survival kits missing. The slide vendor returned four of the kits immediately and the final three were returned in a few days. All kits were installed on the aircraft but this was done without making logbook [entries]. No additional flights were made prior to all the kits being installed.
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.