A320 flight crew experienced a refueling door note during takeoff which quickly extinguished. During...

Narrative:

We had to return to the field with a slat problem...upon reaching V1 the refueling light came on; I pointed it out to captain but we both said press on due to our high speed into the airport. When I announced rotate the refueling light went out so we pressed on as normal...when we retracted the flaps we got a flight cntl slat fault on the ECAM and the flap indicator showed slats were not fully retracted. Captain flew aircraft and I proceeded with ECAM which had me recycle flap handle. This did not fix the problem so I pulled out the book and finished the irregular procedure and called maintenance. The refueling light never came back on at all after airborne by the way. We also had to stop climb at FL200 and stayed at 220 KTS for the rest of the flight. I went back to observe the slats from the cabin and saw that the slats were indeed not fully retracted and something was hanging from the fuel door area. With the concurrence of maintenance and dispatch we returned to the airport uneventfully. Flaps and slats all extended properly.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A320 flight crew experienced a refueling door note during takeoff which quickly extinguished. During slat retraction a FLT CNTL SLAT fault is indicated on ECAM and slats will not completely retract. Flight returns to departure airport where refueling door was found open and damaged.

Narrative: We had to return to the field with a slat problem...Upon reaching V1 the refueling light came on; I pointed it out to Captain but we both said press on due to our high speed into the airport. When I announced rotate the refueling light went out so we pressed on as normal...when we retracted the flaps we got a FLT CNTL slat fault on the ECAM and the flap indicator showed slats were not fully retracted. Captain flew aircraft and I proceeded with ECAM which had me recycle flap handle. This did not fix the problem so I pulled out the book and finished the irregular procedure and called Maintenance. The refueling light never came back on at all after airborne by the way. We also had to stop climb at FL200 and stayed at 220 KTS for the rest of the flight. I went back to observe the slats from the cabin and saw that the slats were indeed not fully retracted and something was hanging from the fuel door area. With the concurrence of Maintenance and Dispatch we returned to the airport uneventfully. Flaps and slats all extended properly.

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	939556
Time
Date	201103
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZZ.Airport
State Reference	FO
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A320
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Climb
Component
Aircraft Component	Leading Edge Slat
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150 Flight Crew Total 14000 Flight Crew Type 6000
Person 2
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical

A320 flight crew experienced a refueling door note during takeoff which quickly extinguished. During slat retraction a flight cntl slat fault is indicated on ECAM and slats will not completely retract. Flight returns to departure airport where refueling door was found open and damaged.