CPR X UNAUTH PENETRATION OF ADJOINING APCH CTL AIRSPACE.

Date: 1995-05 · Aircraft: Learjet 36

Anomalies: deviation-discrepancy-procedural-published-material-policy|other-airspace-violation-entry-or-exit

Synopsis

CPR X UNAUTH PENETRATION OF ADJOINING APCH CTL AIRSPACE.

Narrative

I WAS WORKING ALL POSITIONS COMBINED AT PHL APCH. DOVER CALLED TO MAKE A MANUAL HDOF ON CPR X WHO WAS JUST E OF ENO AT THE TIME. I HAD NO INFO ON THE ACFT AND ONLY A LIMITED DATA BLOCK WHICH INDICATED A TARGET LEVEL AT 7000 FT. I TOLD DOVER 'NO; I HAVE NO INFO; I DON'T WANT HIM BUT I'LL CALL YOU BACK.' DOVER; WHILE WE WERE REQUESTING THE FLT PLAN FROM THE FDIO TURNED THE ACFT INTO MY AIRSPACE AND PUT IT ON MY FREQ. WHEN WE QUESTIONED THE DOVER CTLR WHY SHE DID IT SHE TOLD US SHE DIRECTED AN AUTOMATED HDOF AT US AND SHE THOUGHT WE TOOK IT. I NEVER ACCEPTED AN AUTOMATED OR A MANUAL HDOF. THE ACFT; CPR X; A LR36 WAS ROUTED FROM DOVER TO ALB VIA THE ILG-7; DQO- ETX-J80-SAX-J6-ALB. THAT RTE IS NOT VALID. DOVER ALSO INFORMED US THAT THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO DIRECT HDOFS TO ZDC BUT THAT SHE DID NOT DO THAT IN THIS CASE. DOVER TOLD US THAT ZDC CALLED ABOUT THE ACFT AS IT WAS ENTERING OUR AIRSPACE. ZDC NEVER ANSWERED OUR LANDLINE CALLS. WE REALIZED THAT SOMEHOW ZDC HAD ACCEPTED A HDOF DOVER HAD DIRECTED AT PHL. THIS TYPE OF CONFUSION HAS OCCURRED TIME AND TIME AGAIN FOR YRS BTWN DOVER AND PHL WITH THE ILG-7 DEPS. IT IS TYPICALLY HANDLED BY PHL CTLRS MUCH LIKE WE DID IN THIS SIT; BY SCRAMBLING TO GET A RTE FROM ZNY; SENDING THE ACFT ON ITS WAY AND ACCEPTING THE STATUS QUO. I BELIEVE IT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED ONCE AND FOR ALL. I HAVE FILED AN UNSATISFACTORY CONDITION RPT ON IT. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: RPTR STATED THE INCIDENT WAS INVESTIGATED AND THE DOV CTLR HAD MISDIRECTED THE RADAR HDOF TO THE CTR INSTEAD OF TO PHL APCH CTL. PROCS HAVE BEEN PUT IN PLACE WHERE DOV NOW HAS TO GIVE FLT PLAN INFO TO PHL ON THIS RTE PRIOR TO RADAR HDOF.

Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.