Final Report E170 / F900 LoS en route east of Varna Bulgaria, 30 June 2015

Final Report E170 / F900 LoS en route east of Varna Bulgaria, 30 June 2015

Publication info
Author
AAIU (Bulgaria)
Category
Airworthiness Human Factors Loss of Separation
Date of publication
30/12/2016

On 30 June 2015 the crew of an en route Embraer 170 failed to notice that their transponder had reverted to Standby and the ATC response, which involved cross border coordination, was so slow that the aircraft was not informed of the loss of its transponder signal for over 30 minutes by which time it had already passed within 0.9nm of an unseen Dassault Falcon 900 at the same level. The Investigation found that the Embraer crew had failed to follow appropriate procedures and that the subsequent collision risk had been significantly worsened by a muddled and inappropriate ATC response.

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