Commercial Fixed Wing
Maintenance Airframe; Maintenance Powerplant
Situational Awareness
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Hazardous Material Violation; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Equipment / Tooling; Procedure
We have found aircraft halon engine and APU fire bottles with squibs installed improperly protected for shipping and handling. This is a dangerous configuration that could lead to injury or death to employees handling the pressurized bottles if the squib were to accidently discharged. This might be the failure of vendors to properly prepare these vessels for shipping. Bottle we have found in stores missing any cap on squib. Other bottles were mssing metal caps on discharge ports.
Aircraft engine and APU halon fire bottles received from the vendor have been found with squibs not properly protected for shipping and handling.