In this issue we cover the 2015-2019 period, combining European EVAIR and global IATA findings. The trends in our report are still for the period prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and it's visible impact on the aviation sector.
EUROCONTROL voluntary ATM incident reporting (EVAIR) safety bulletin 22
2015-2019
Our 2020 bulletin comes at a difficult time for the aviation sector, however, we continue to work and maintain the system, prepared for the return of air traffic.
Between 2015 and 2019
+
13,000
ATM occurrence reports
+
29,300
Reports in all categories
In this issue we report on:
- a drop in number of drone events in 2019 after a significant increase in 2018;
- the increase in GPS outages between 2015 and 2018 and slight decline in 2019;
- the significant decrease in laser interference from 6.7% down to 2.4%;
- call-sign similarities making up 5.2% of ATM reports;
- air-ground communication making up half of the top 7 contributors to ATM occurrences.
For much more information and a deeper dive into the reports, download and consult our bulletin.