1998-05 · NASA ASRS report 402344
GRUMMAN ACFT IS INBOUND TO FWA ARPT ON A PRACTICE ILS APCH AND A JETSTREAM ACFT; AN IFR DEP; IS CLRED FOR TKOF ON SAME RWY OPPOSITE DIRECTION. ACFT CONFLICT 10 MI FROM THE ARPT RESULTING IN AN OPERROR.
ACFT #1 WAS ON A PRACTICE APCH TO RWY 5; ACFT #2 WAS DEPARTING THE SAME RWY OPPOSITE DIRECTION. ACFT #1 WAS ON APPROX 10 MI FINAL WHEN ACFT #2 WAS CLRED FOR TKOF. AS LCL CTLR; I APPREQUED A R TURN ON COURSE WHICH WAS APPROVED. HIS COURSE DIFFERED FROM THE INBOUND COURSE OF ACFT #1 BY ONLY 9 DEGS INSTEAD OF 45 DEGS AS REQUIRED BY THE 7110.65 PARAGRAPH 6-1-3. I ASSUMED THAT THE JETSTREAM WOULD QUICKLY OUTCLB ACFT #1 AND USED THIS AS MY SEPARATION. I ALSO ASSUMED THAT BECAUSE MY REQUEST FOR ON COURSE WITH THE RADAR CTLR WAS APPROVED THAT HE WOULD ISSUE TA'S AND/OR RADAR VECTORS IF NEEDED TO INSURE SEPARATION. ACFT #2 ASKED THE RADAR CTLR IF HE SHOWED TFC FOR HIM WHICH I ASSUME WAS A RESULT OF TCASII. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS IN THIS EVENT ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1) MY INEXPERIENCE AS A CTLR LED ME TO THINKING THAT THE JETSTREAM COULD OUTCLB ACFT #1. 2) I PUT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ENSURING SEPARATION ON ANOTHER CTLR RATHER THAN MYSELF. 3) I DID NOT FOLLOW THE PROCS OUTLINED IN THE 7110.65 PARAGRAPH 6-3-1.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
Loading the flight search…
Pick an aircraft model — Boeing 737, Airbus A320, A380, Boeing 787 Dreamliner and more — enter your origin airport, and FlightFinder shows every route that plane flies from there with live fares.
We support Boeing 737/747/757/767/777/787, the full Airbus A220/A319/A320/A321/A330/A340/A350/A380 family, Embraer E170/E175/E190/E195, Bombardier CRJ and Dash 8, and the ATR 42/72 turboprops.
Search and schedules are free. Pro ($4.99/month, $39/year, or $99 one-time lifetime) unlocks the enriched flight card — on-time stats, CO₂ per passenger, amenities, live gate & weather — plus My Trips with push alerts.
Live schedules come from Amadeus, AeroDataBox and Travelpayouts. Observed routes (which aircraft actually flew a given city pair) are crowdsourced from adsb.lol ADS-B data under the Open Database License.