News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary ACAS II is a well established safety net to prevent mid-air and near-mid-air collisions. In the latest ACAS Bulletin, Stanislaw Drozdowski provides details of recent and planned changes to ACAS II procedures and equipment. The Bulletin also provides descriptions of recent events illustrating the effectiveness of ACAS,… Continue reading ACAS News
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News from EUROCONTROL’s safety knowledge base SKYbrary
Volcanic ash
News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary On 15 April 2010, a large volcanic ash cloud moving south across North West Europe caused significant disruption to air traffic. During a volcanic eruption, huge quantities of material can be ejected into the atmosphere, reaching great height and remaining a threat to aviation for several months.… Continue reading Volcanic ash
Safety Behaviours – Guide for Pilots
News from EUROCONTROL‘s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary SKYbrary has announced the integration of the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s human factors toolkit “Safety Behaviours – Guide for Pilots”. The toolkit comprises videos and supporting training resources and is focused on the needs of small regional air carriers and charter operations, flying training organisations and… Continue reading Safety Behaviours – Guide for Pilots
Strategic Lateral Offset Procedure (SLOP)
News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary The accuracy of modern en-route navigation has increased the risk of a mid-air collision where 2 aircraft are on the same ATS Route and one or both of them has either been issued a clearance in error, or is not operating in accordance with a clearance. As… Continue reading Strategic Lateral Offset Procedure (SLOP)
2009 Aviation Safety Performance Data published by IATA
News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary 2009’s accident rate for Western-built jet aircraft is the second lowest in aviation history. The 2009 global accident rate (measured in hull losses per million flights of Western-built jet aircraft) was 0.71. That is equal to one accident for every 1.4 million flights. This is a significant… Continue reading 2009 Aviation Safety Performance Data published by IATA
Beyond the runway end safety area
News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary The consequences of many runway excursions, especially overruns, are made much more serious because the aircraft end up beyond the actual or nominal confines of the ICAO-defined Runway End Safety Area (RESA) and is catastrophically damaged because of major obstructions or terrain changes encountered soon after this… Continue reading Beyond the runway end safety area
Ice contaminated tailplane stall – ICTS
News from EUROCONTROL‘s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary The term “Ice Contaminated Tailplane Stall”, or ICTS, refers to those events that involve flow separation from the horizontal stabilizer due to ice accretion. A significant threat exists if the tail stall is confused with a main wing stall, as the recovery procedures are precisely opposite… Read… Continue reading Ice contaminated tailplane stall – ICTS
FAA Call to action on airline safety and pilot training
News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary On February 12, 2009, a Colgan Air Bombardier Dash-8 Q400, operating as Continental Connection Flight 3407, crashed while on approach to Buffalo, New York. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) conducted a public hearing on this accident from May 12-14, 2009. During that hearing and subsequent congressional… Continue reading FAA Call to action on airline safety and pilot training
Air France 447 – Second Interim Report published. Cause still unknown.
News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary The loss of AF447 over the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June 2009 is proving to be every bit the nightmare of accident investigators and safety experts alike. The French accident investigation bureau BEA has now published their second Interim Report which includes new findings and makes a… Continue reading Air France 447 – Second Interim Report published. Cause still unknown.
Runway incursion prevention – know your hot spots
News from EUROCONTROL’S aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary It is well known to pilots and air traffic controllers alike that some parts of the runway/taxiway complex at aerodromes seem to attract incidents. As if they were jinxed in some way, mistakes are made regularly at these singularities of the airport universe. On roads internationally standardized… Continue reading Runway incursion prevention – know your hot spots