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ASRS 1893503

ACN 1893503 · 2022-04 · Dassault-Breguet Undifferentiated or Other Model

First Officer reported fatigue, unfamiliar airport departure, time pressure, CRM breakdown, altitude overshoot with FMC error, resulted in ATC action for terrain avoidance and TCAS RA.

Pilot narrative

Verbatim, de-identified by NASA. Placeholders: ZZZ, X, Y.

Departing TRM, long day after a series of heavy duty and early body clock getups. Short flight scheduled. We were an hour late. Received a clearance with a 3 minute void time. We were feeling pressure to get airborne. Due to this and our general fatigue, we failed as a crew to do a comprehensive briefing of our departure procedure. It was a first time operating out of TRM. All of these factors should have made us act with care, but I believe operating out of an uncontrolled airport, it's a more casual operation. We didn't brief the Departure procedure. The graphic showed a line between TRM VOR and PSP VOR, our first fix. It led me to simply think that was our routing after takeoff. The procedure actually requires a turn to the south and climb. ATC caught our error promptly and re cleared us to DEMEY intersection. Though the Captain loaded the fix, the FMC and autopilot directed a turn to a course toward terrain. ATC was alert and vectored us away from the terrain. I disconnected the autopilot to make the turn promptly. My head was swimming and I became task saturated trying to fly the plane and figure out the Navigation issues. My altitude control was poor which lead to a momentary TCAS alert for VFR traffic. Needless to say, it was ugly.

NASA classification · Anomalies

  • Aircraft Equipment Problem
  • Conflict
  • Deviation - Altitude
  • Deviation - Track / Heading
  • Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural
  • Inflight Event / Encounter

NASA classification · Assessments

Contributing Factors / Situations
Aircraft · Human Factors · Procedure
Primary Problem
Human Factors

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