A causal factors analysis of aircraft incidents due to radar limitations: The Norway case study

Busyairah Syd Ali, Arnab Majumdar, Washington Yotto Ochieng, Wolfgang Schuster and Thiam Kian Chiew

Journal of Air Transport Management, 2015, vol. 44-45, 103-109

Abstract: Provision of seamless, safe and effective surveillance services to airspace users requires high performance surveillance sensor coverage in the whole airspace. Limitations in the surveillance system will lead to an inability to provide the required surveillance services to the users. This may result in aircraft incident and accident occurrences. In this paper a case study is developed for the Norwegian airspace, based on five years of safety reports, to identify causal factors of incidents/accidents due to radar system limitations. This is conducted with a safety data analysis from Avinor – Norway's Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) and structured communication with Surveillance/ATM safety experts from Avinor. The case study shows that, 76 out of 124 occurrences within the five years in the Norwegian airspace/airport were related to the surveillance function, and 34 out of the 76 occurrences were due to limitations in the radar systems. The analysis identified that the highest contributing causal factors of the occurrences due to radar system limitations were limited surveillance coverage, followed by the lack of situational awareness for flight crew/controllers and unsynchronised surveillance information between flight crew and controllers.

Keywords: Surveillance system; Causal factor; Aircraft incident/accident; Radar limitations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2015.03.004

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