Narrative:

We were delayed inbound for about 2 hours and 20 minutes. On the approach there was ice that accumulated on the aircraft. Once on the ground; we were delayed further due to a back up of deicing operations on the gates. After waiting and subsequent taxing we arrived at the gate after an hour on the ground. Once the plane was turned; we had to deice. We finally took the runway late that night. At about 65 KTS an EICAS master warning (pitch trim main inoperative) occurred. We aborted the takeoff and held on a taxiway to coordinate a corrective action and gate.the captain wrote up the pitch trim main inoperative message as discrepancy number 1. He then wrote; as a remark underneath; that we performed an aborted takeoff. Maintenance came out to the aircraft and signed off the discrepancy and noted that the remark didn't require a maintenance sign off. The captain confirmed that the discrepancy was signed off and we departed. The flight crew [who picked up the plane] the following morning notified us of an incorrect remark section write up.I believe a few years ago; there was a different procedure for writing up aborted takeoffs. I think there was some confusion as to what the proper write-up for the aborted takeoff was. A contributing factor for this incorrect entry into the log may have been fatigue. I had personally been awake for about 14 hours and still had another leg to do. We did not get off duty until several hours after midnight. Also a contributing factor is that this event does not happen regularly. This was only my second aborted takeoff at the company and the first event resulted in the flight canceling.a more thorough review and adherence to the operations manual section regarding aircraft status would have prevented this; [as well as]; a better recognition of the onset of fatigue. The manual is sometimes so large that finding pertinent data is difficult. Even after it was determined that the event had occurred; it took me 15 to 20 minutes to find the section regarding aborted takeoffs.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: After performing a rejected takeoff due to EICAS warning of an inoperative main pitch trim the flight crew of an E-145 failed to properly document the rejected takeoff in the log book.

Narrative: We were delayed inbound for about 2 hours and 20 minutes. On the approach there was ice that accumulated on the aircraft. Once on the ground; we were delayed further due to a back up of deicing operations on the gates. After waiting and subsequent taxing we arrived at the gate after an hour on the ground. Once the plane was turned; we had to deice. We finally took the runway late that night. At about 65 KTS an EICAS master warning (pitch trim main inoperative) occurred. We aborted the takeoff and held on a taxiway to coordinate a corrective action and gate.The Captain wrote up the pitch trim main inoperative message as discrepancy number 1. He then wrote; as a remark underneath; that we performed an aborted takeoff. Maintenance came out to the aircraft and signed off the discrepancy and noted that the remark didn't require a Maintenance sign off. The Captain confirmed that the discrepancy was signed off and we departed. The flight crew [who picked up the plane] the following morning notified us of an incorrect remark section write up.I believe a few years ago; there was a different procedure for writing up aborted takeoffs. I think there was some confusion as to what the proper write-up for the aborted takeoff was. A contributing factor for this incorrect entry into the log may have been fatigue. I had personally been awake for about 14 hours and still had another leg to do. We did not get off duty until several hours after midnight. Also a contributing factor is that this event does not happen regularly. This was only my second aborted takeoff at the company and the first event resulted in the flight canceling.A more thorough review and adherence to the operations manual section regarding aircraft status would have prevented this; [as well as]; a better recognition of the onset of fatigue. The manual is sometimes so large that finding pertinent data is difficult. Even after it was determined that the event had occurred; it took me 15 to 20 minutes to find the section regarding aborted takeoffs.

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.