1997-08 · NASA ASRS report 377261
OPDEV WHEN A BA31 DEP OFF HKY ENTERED CLT AIRSPACE REQUIRING EVASIVE ACTION BY RPTR AND CLT TO AVOID A DC3 BEING WORKED BY CLT. CLT HAD APPROVED THE HDG WITH REF TO THE DC3.
I WAS WORKING SECTOR 48 ALONE. SECTOR 48 IS AN ULTRA LOW SECTOR (10000 FT AND BELOW). IT'S REALLY JUST A CTR RUN APCH CTL. ACFT #2 WAS INBOUND TO CLT FROM THE N. ACFT #2 WAS HANDED OFF TO CLT WITHOUT INCIDENT. CLT CALLED ABOUT 2 MINS LATER TO GET CTL FOR TURNS (BACK TOWARD WHERE THE ACFT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE). I CLRED ACFT #1 FROM HKY TO CLT VIA DEPART SW; TURN L HDG 180 DEGS PER LOA. I COORDINATED WITH CLT AND CLT APPROVED IT REF ACFT #2. DURING THIS TIME I WAS DISTR; WORKING ACFT #3. AS CLT DOES NOT APPROVE OVERFLTS; I NEEDED TO RERTE ACFT #3 INTO GSO AIRSPACE. I DID NOT RECOGNIZE THE ARPT; HAD TO LOOK IT UP. THE COMPUTER DID NOT RECOGNIZE THE ARPT AND I HAD TO ENTER THE LATITUDE/LONGITUDE. AS I WAS CLRING THE ACFT AND TRYING TO EDUCATE THE PLT ABOUT FILING A RTE THROUGH NON RADAR AIRSPACE; ACFT #1 DEPARTED. BECAUSE ACFT #3 AND I WERE BLOCKING THE FREQ; ACFT #1 COULDN'T CHK IN. I HAD ALSO FORGOTTEN TO DEPART THE ACFT IN THE COMPUTER SO THE DATA BLOCK DIDN'T AUTO ACQUIRE. FORTUNATELY; I FINALLY NOTICED THE LIMITED DATA BLOCK. I INTERRUPTED MY CONVERSATION WITH ACFT #3 AND CALLED THE ACFT #1. THE PLT ANSWERED PROMPTLY AND I TURNED THE ACFT TO A HDG OF 240 DEGS. CLT HAD TURNED ACFT #2 ALMOST 90 DEGS TO PUT HIM BACK IN THE ARR AREA; DESPITE HAVING APPROVED DIRECT TO THE ARPT. TO COMPLICATE MATTERS; THIS HDG TOOK ACFT #2 OVER THE RADAR SITE SO THAT I COULDN'T SEE THE TARGET.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
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