P50 controller described a airspace incursion resulting from an early hand off to the next sector an...

Narrative:

An A320 was vectored off of the KOOLY2 RNAV arrival for spacing and issued 8;000. I handed him off to finals (verde) very early and accidentally turned my data block to the same color as my primaries and limited data blocks. In doing so; I overlooked the target until prompted by the pilot. I then issued a point out to pima and santan but had already violated pima's airspace. There were no other aircraft within several miles (IFR or VFR). As I could not turn the aircraft back to the original color white; stars not capable; I should have put a j-ring or a leader line to remind myself but did not and disregarded the aircraft. I will personally pay better attention.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: P50 Controller described a airspace incursion resulting from an early hand off to the next sector and an inadvertent Data Block color adjustment; overlooking the developing airspace problem.

Narrative: An A320 was vectored off of the KOOLY2 RNAV arrival for spacing and issued 8;000. I handed him off to finals (VERDE) very early and accidentally turned my Data Block to the same color as my primaries and limited Data Blocks. In doing so; I overlooked the target until prompted by the pilot. I then issued a point out to PIMA and SANTAN but had already violated PIMA's airspace. There were no other aircraft within several miles (IFR or VFR). As I could not turn the aircraft back to the original color white; stars not capable; I should have put a J-Ring or a Leader Line to remind myself but did not and disregarded the aircraft. I will personally pay better attention.

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	919238
Time
Date	201011
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	P50.TRACON
State Reference	AZ
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A320
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Vectors
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Approach
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Airspace Violation All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

P50 controller described a airspace incursion resulting from an early hand off to the next sector and an inadvertent data block color adjustment; overlooking the developing airspace problem.