A321
Situational Awareness; Time Pressure; Workload
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter FOD; Ground Event / Encounter Object
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Landed As Precaution; Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification; Flight Crew Returned To Departure Airport
Human Factors; Aircraft; Procedure
Prior to [the] flight; I was coming off of a previous flight that was on maintenance delay and right after that; lunch. Due to the tight assignment that I was assigned; I was stressed out. This caused me to forget to do my arrival walk around. Once plane arrived; I immediately scanned the offload. After completion of offload I sent two of my agents to run [flight load]. This left me to start the onload with one agent. Once I started the on load; it was weight restricted. I proceeded to load the plane according to the load plan. Upon completing F1 & F2; I started to the aft eventually running out of space; due to restriction. I directed my team to go to the fwd bin; in which I myself moved bags accordingly from F1 to F2. I proved to load the remaining bags in F1. Once I finished the on load I had to call [Manager] due to weight restrictions. I also directed one of my agents to notify the Captain to release the parking brake and let them know that I was contacting [Manager] for weight restriction. After talking to [Manager] for about 5-10 minutes; I immediately got into my push back and proceeded to push the flight out while forgetting to do my walk around.I realized the event occurred; once being notified my Management. The event occurred due to one of my agents placing a vitamin water bottle on the main landing gear upon arrival.The aircraft had to do an emergency landing due to the water bottle being on the main nose gear; which caused the tires not to go in. [Management] notified my crew and I and told us what happened and why it happened. One of the agents admitted that she placed the water bottle upon arrival but forgot that she placed it there.
Ramp Agent reported a precautionary landing due a water bottle hindering the nose landing gear from retracting.