Operational Safety Study on Sudden High Energy Runway Conflict (SHERC)

The purpose of this report is twofold:

  • To document the operational safety study on one of the Top 5 Network Manager operational safety priorities for 2015/2016 – 'Sudden High Energy Runway Conflict (SHERC)';
  • To serve as a reference for the Network actors in case they undertake operational safety analysis and improvement activities for Sudden High Energy Runway Conflict (SHERC) event;

The EUROCONTROL Safety Improvement Sub-Group (SISG), reporting to the EUROCONTROL Safety Team, was tasked to identify the Top 5 ATM Operational Safety Priorities.

SISG performed a series of reviews during summer 2014 and involved a series of dedicated workshops with 14 ANSPs, representing a large part of European air traffic.

The analysed sample includes 57 runway incursion incidents of which 13 were classified as severity A and 44 classified as severity B. The 2014 EUROCONTROL AST data shows there were 101 runway incursions severity A or B reported incidents. Of these, 25 were classified as severity A and 76 incidents as severity B. Thus the study is based on detailed analysis of more than half of the total Severity A+B runway incursion reported to EUROCONTROL by all States.

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Operational Safety Study on Sudden High Energy Runway Conflict (SHERC)