The National Transportation Safety Board has directed the Federal Aviation Administration to collaborate with industry on developing cues for pilots to detect incorrect flight plan entries.
Safety recommendation
The National Transportation Safety Board has directed the Federal Aviation Administration to collaborate with industry on developing cues for pilots to detect incorrect flight plan entries.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued safety recommendation A-14-086, identified under reference number DCA13MA133, addressed directly to the Federal Aviation Administration. This directive urges the agency to work closely with industry stakeholders across all applicable aircraft types to develop and implement effective solutions for a specific operational hazard. The core objective is to provide pilots with a direct and conspicuous cue when they program the flight management computer flight plan incorrectly. Such errors may involve improper waypoints or discontinuities that can cause the vertical deviation indicator to present misleading information during an approach, potentially compromising situational awareness and safety.