2000-04 · NASA ASRS report 468712
POSSIBLE EXIT FROM WARNING AREA 122 DURING A MIL TRAINING EXERCISE.
WHILE FLYING A TRAINING MISSION WITH A MIL SHIP IN WARNING AREA W122; MY ACFT AND/OR MY COMPANY ACFT SPILLED OUT OF THE AREA AND VIOLATED THE AR8 AIRWAY. THIS IS BY NATURE A FAIRLY DYNAMIC MISSION; INVOLVING THE CTLR RECEIVING TRAINING; AND 2 ACFT; IN THIS CASE LEARJET 25'S. IN THE COURSE OF THE MISSION ONE OR BOTH OF THE ACFT WAS VECTORED OUT OF THE WARNING AREA AND INTO THE VICINITY OF AN OCEANIC CORRIDOR AIRWAY. WHILE WE SPOT CHKED OUR POS USING GPS; WE DID NOT CONSTANTLY MONITOR IT. WE HAD BEEN LULLED INTO COMPLACENCY DUE TO ALL SPOT CHKS INDICATING OUR POS TO BE WELL WITHIN THE WARNING AREA. ALSO; WE HAD CEASED MONITORING UHF GUARD DUE TO FREQ CONGESTION MAKING COM WITH THE SHIP DIFFICULT. WE WERE MONITORING THE APPROPRIATE VHF FREQ; BUT WERE APPARENTLY BEYOND ITS RANGE. LESSONS LEARNED: 1) NO MATTER HOW NOISY GUARD IS; MONITOR IT. 2) DON'T TRUST THE SURFACE CTLR TO MAINTAIN AREA CONTAINMENT; IE; MONITOR POS MORE CAREFULLY. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: THERE WAS NO TFC CONFLICT WITH ANY ACFT IN THE TRAINING AREA OR ON AR8. THE CONCERN WAS THAT THE CTLING AGENCY FOR W122 COULD NOT CONTACT THEM AND THE CTLRS WERE CONCERNED ABOUT A POSSIBLE SPILLOUT FROM THE WARNING AREA.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
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