Citation

de Carvalho PV, Ferreira B. Work 2012; 41: 232-239.

Affiliation

Nuclear Engineering Institute, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, IOS Press)

DOI

10.3233/WOR-2012-0162-232

PMID

22316728

Abstract

In this article we present a model of some functions and activities of the Brazilian Air traffic Control System (ATS) in the period in which occurred a mid-air collision between flight GLO1907, a commercial aircraft Boeing 737-800, and flight N600XL, an executive jet EMBRAER E-145, to investigate key resilience characteristics of the ATM. Modeling in some detail activities during the collision and related them to overall behavior and antecedents that stress the organization uncover some drift into failure mechanisms that erode safety defenses provided by the Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), enabling a mid-air collision to happen.

Language: en