B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Attendant Current
Communication Breakdown; Situational Awareness; Troubleshooting
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General Flight Cancelled / Delayed; General Maintenance Action; General Release Refused / Aircraft Not Accepted
Aircraft; Company Policy; Procedure
I was performing my preflight checklist and noticed a missing halon AND bracket in the FC OHB RIGHT SIDE. I immediately informed my Captain of this. He notified Maintenance who came 25 minutes later. Plane was boarded ready to go. Maintenance looked at the stowage space and left to retrieve a halon and bracket. 20 minutes later Maintenance came back and said plane is out of service. No brackets in stock room to rectify this situation. We deplaned all passengers and left ZZZ for ZZZ1 an hour and a half later on another 737. Obviously this plane has been flying around the system for A LONG TIME with this violation of missing emergency equipment. Obviously the Flight Attendants before me didn't do their preflight emergency equipment checklist...or this would have been caught much sooner. Obviously when this was configured the proper checklist wasn't followed to make sure ALL equipment is on board. Whoever signed off on this was negligent.
Flight Attendant reported that during preflight; a portable fire extinguisher and its mounting bracket were discovered missing; resulting in an aircraft swap.