Collision Risk Due to TCAS Safety Issues
Collision Risk Due to TCAS Safety Issues
The current study has reviewed the previous computation with recent (2009) UK and French data. Two SA01a events and two SA-AVSA events were found, in recordings with 3,400,000 flight hours of traffic. Using these additional events, an update of the initial risk of collision (i.e., one collision every 3 years) was made. The new figure computed indicates that the risk of collision with issues SA01 and SA-AVSA is assessed to be one collision every 7.5 years. The corresponding probability (i.e., 9.8x10-9 per flight (hour) exceeds the tolerable rate for catastrophic events caused by equipment-related hazards by a factor of about 10. The severity of these two issues continues to call for a rapid implementation of the solution, TCAS II logic version 7.1.






