Airbus 318/319/320/321 Undifferentiated
Maintenance Airframe; Maintenance Powerplant
Fatigue; Situational Awareness; Time Pressure; Workload; Communication Breakdown
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Maintenance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged
Staffing; Human Factors; Environment - Non Weather Related; Procedure
During installation of right hand #2 spoiler installation it was required to raise flaps to check the clearance of the spoiler to the flap when flaps are up. I was in the flight deck running the flaps and was given go by ground mechanic. I proceeded to raise flaps increment at a time and then during the flap retraction process I was told hold and lower flaps back down. I took them down and shut down hydraulic power and went down to see what had happened. The 2 mechanics were there looking at the flap and found that it was damaged by a spoiler lock left in area. [We were] tired due to hours awake and pressure to get the job done and aircraft back into service. Always a push with no time and manpower. [We need] manpower and time on aircraft to get jobs done. Scheduling is not planning out proper time for manpower.
We were putting in a servo actuator on the right wing one Aircraft X. We had to perform an operational check and check of the dimension on the gap between the flaps and spoiler. Was standing beside [the] r1 door heard a cracking noise; didn't know what it was. Yelled at the mechanic running the flaps to stop and bring them back down immediately. Found the spoiler lockout pin in #1 flap track canoe. Found damage on the leading edge of the flap. Noise was loud due to hydraulic pumps running to operate the flaps and no power in the hangar so we are using a ground power cart.
Airbus maintenance crew reported that the trailing edge flap was damaged when a flight spoiler lock-out not removed prior to retraction.