A flight attendant reported maintenance refused to remove an improperly secured galley carrier box.

Attributes
ACN	943119
Time
Date	201104
Place
Locale Reference	LAX.Airport
State Reference	CA
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B767-300 and 300 ER
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Galley Furnishing
Person 1
Function	Flight Attendant (On Duty)
Qualification	Flight Attendant Current
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown

Narrative:

Aft galley carrier box housing did not lock in. Mechanic could not fix problem and refused to take the carrier box off. He said it '...had to stay with the aircraft.' the mechanic said the carrier box was too small for the housing and was not the correct one. He resolved the problem by taping the left side and bottom of carrier to the housing. In an emergency situation the box would not have stayed in the housing and would certainly have fallen out as the carrier box was not locked in; but only taped on two sides!

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A Flight Attendant reported Maintenance refused to remove an improperly secured galley carrier box.

Narrative: Aft galley carrier box housing did not lock in. Mechanic could not fix problem and refused to take the carrier box off. He said it '...had to stay with the aircraft.' The mechanic said the carrier box was too small for the housing and was not the correct one. He resolved the problem by taping the left side and bottom of carrier to the housing. In an emergency situation the box would not have stayed in the housing and would certainly have fallen out as the carrier box was not locked in; but only taped on two sides!

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.