A300
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100; Flight Crew Total 10400; Flight Crew Type 1200
Communication Breakdown; Situational Awareness; Time Pressure
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Human Factors
After we pushed back to deice and engine start we recognized the flight number and crew name discrepancies on the paperwork. The Captain corrected the crew numbers in the initialization and contacted flight control about the discrepancies and to update the flight plan. After recognition of the paperwork issues we did everything we could to mitigate the situation before starting our taxi for departure. I need to be more disciplined in cross checking the paperwork to aircraft and crew especially on a turn when trying to make up time from a delay and when there is a lot to do in less time; and on the backside [of] a duty day. It would have been beneficial if we could have been notified in some manner that we would be doing a tail swap. Also of benefit is if the Captain's name was printed on the release next to the signature line. Personally I would probably recognize an incorrect name before an incorrect tail number; especially if I was predisposed from habit to expect to fly the second leg in the same tail as the first leg.
Upon landing in ZZZ; there was another A-300 on the ramp. Since we were running late and believed that we would spend minimal time on the ground in ZZZ; we called inside and asked for our Flight Release to be brought to the airplane. Ground Ops went uneventfully in ZZZ. After pushing back and calling for taxi; Ground control notified us that there was no flight plan on file for us. We thought this was very odd since we had received a PDC. This caused us to investigate and we discovered that we were actually [a different flight number] in the ACARS initialize page. Then we noticed the Flight Release was for [a different aircraft] and our names were not on this release. Then we called our dispatcher and it became very obvious that the other A-300 that was on the ramp and had already blocked out was the airplane we were supposed to be operating on. Flight Dispatch made some necessary changes and we operated to ZZZ1 uneventfully.
A300 flight crew reported that after being pushed back and during taxi they realized they had the flight number that was associated with the adjacent aircraft.