A BE1900 crew departed the gate with an expired checklist. They taxied back to the gate for a faxed ...

Attributes
ACN	969967
Time
Date	201109
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Beech 1900
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Taxi
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Checklists
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

We did an airplane swap to an aircraft which we received from the incoming flight crew. We were only scheduled for a 25 minute turn to swap aircraft and fuel the aircraft and board passengers. As we were taxing out to the runway; we realized that the checklists that we were using where the expired old ones. We couldn't find any of the revised ones onboard. I then proceeded to stop taxing and call dispatch to find out if we were legal to go with the old checklists. Dispatch checked with management and told us that we were not legal and that we should do a gate return back to the gate to pickup copies of the new checklist that they were going to fax over immediately to the station. Dispatch noted that we were legal to fly with the copies of the new checklists. After taxing back to the gate; we received copies of the new checklists. We then blocked out again and made the trip back to our crew base. Suggest allowing more ground time for crews to swap aircraft; fuel and board passengers so we are rushing less and have more time to validate current checklists and other preflight duties.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A BE1900 crew departed the gate with an expired checklist. They taxied back to the gate for a faxed copy when they realized their omission.

Narrative: We did an airplane swap to an aircraft which we received from the incoming flight crew. We were only scheduled for a 25 minute turn to swap aircraft and fuel the aircraft and board passengers. As we were taxing out to the runway; we realized that the checklists that we were using where the expired old ones. We couldn't find any of the revised ones onboard. I then proceeded to stop taxing and call dispatch to find out if we were legal to go with the old checklists. Dispatch checked with management and told us that we were not legal and that we should do a gate return back to the gate to pickup copies of the new checklist that they were going to fax over immediately to the station. Dispatch noted that we were legal to fly with the copies of the new checklists. After taxing back to the gate; we received copies of the new checklists. We then blocked out again and made the trip back to our crew base. Suggest allowing more ground time for crews to swap aircraft; fuel and board passengers so we are rushing less and have more time to validate current checklists and other preflight duties.

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.