Narrative:

We showed up to the airplane an hour or so before day break. While doing my pre-flight and first flight of the day duties; we noticed a mechanical discrepancy. After doing the door test; we noticed that the cockpit door was difficult to open and was getting stuck. I did as the fom advised us to do and contacted maintenance control. I called two minutes after starting our preflight and I honestly don't remember the person's name. I told him what our problem was and he immediately said; 'this is suspicious.' I asked what was meant by that and the mechanic told me that another captain called 10 minutes ago with the same issue and it is starting to look suspicious. He also mentioned that the mechanic at our station might not be able to fix it and we will have to ferry it back to a maintenance station. Why would I get up in the middle of the night on my last day to go hunt for mechanical discrepancies to sit around and not get paid for it and as a result miss my flight home? And how devious am I that I would coordinate with another unknown captain somewhere unknown half-way around the country to have the same mechanical discrepancy. This wouldn't be a big deal if this was the first time that was said to me. However; I have been told in the past three weeks that my write-up was 'suspicious.' I don't know exactly what is meant when these responses come up when I call with a known discrepancy; but I interpret it as dispatch thinking that myself and other pilots are maliciously creating discrepancies. I'm just doing my job. I don't want to get back to base to write anything up. If a discrepancy is found in an out station on my last day and last leg it will be written up. There shouldn't be any implications that I'm doing an illegal job action; I'm just doing my job. After the mechanic came out; the problem couldn't be fixed. We had to ferry the aircraft. So I guess it was broken; for real.

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Title: An ERJ190 flight station door opening mechanism spring was broken so that the door could not be opened electrically after it was closed. The flight was canceled and the aircraft ferried for maintenance.

Narrative: We showed up to the airplane an hour or so before day break. While doing my pre-flight and first flight of the day duties; we noticed a mechanical discrepancy. After doing the door test; we noticed that the cockpit door was difficult to open and was getting stuck. I did as the FOM advised us to do and contacted maintenance control. I called two minutes after starting our preflight and I honestly don't remember the person's name. I told him what our problem was and he immediately said; 'this is suspicious.' I asked what was meant by that and the mechanic told me that another Captain called 10 minutes ago with the same issue and it is starting to look suspicious. He also mentioned that the mechanic at our station might not be able to fix it and we will have to ferry it back to a maintenance station. Why would I get up in the middle of the night on my last day to go hunt for mechanical discrepancies to sit around and not get paid for it and as a result miss my flight home? And how devious am I that I would coordinate with another unknown Captain somewhere unknown half-way around the country to have the same mechanical discrepancy. This wouldn't be a big deal if this was the first time that was said to me. However; I have been told in the past three weeks that my write-up was 'suspicious.' I don't know exactly what is meant when these responses come up when I call with a known discrepancy; but I interpret it as dispatch thinking that myself and other pilots are maliciously creating discrepancies. I'm just doing my job. I don't want to get back to base to write anything up. If a discrepancy is found in an out station on my last day and last leg it will be written up. There shouldn't be any implications that I'm doing an illegal job action; I'm just doing my job. After the mechanic came out; the problem couldn't be fixed. We had to ferry the aircraft. So I guess it was broken; for real.

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.