B767 captain is informed during preflight that the FMC's have been loaded with a south america data ...

Narrative:

The wrong navigation database was loaded for this flight; south america instead of europe. It appears this airplane has been flown this way for three days. Although cdg and lhr are in the south american database; fra is not. This is a trap. Maintenance supervisor advised me that checking the navigation database is not part of the ETOPS check. This is a big trap. High compliments are in order for the relief pilot who caught this problem on preflight.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B767 Captain is informed during preflight that the FMC's have been loaded with a South America data base for their flight to Europe; and did not contain their destination airport.

Narrative: The wrong navigation database was loaded for this flight; South America instead of Europe. It appears this airplane has been flown this way for three days. Although CDG and LHR are in the South American database; FRA is not. This is a trap. Maintenance Supervisor advised me that checking the NAV database is not part of the ETOPS check. This is a big trap. High compliments are in order for the Relief Pilot who caught this problem on preflight.

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	965060
Time
Date	201108
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B767-300 and 300 ER
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe

B767 captain is informed during preflight that the FMC's have been loaded with a south america data base for their flight to europe; and did not contain their destination airport.