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Modeling activities in air traffic control systems: antecedents and consequences of a mid-air collision

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: de Carvalho, Paulo Victor R. | Ferreira, Bemildo

Affiliations: Nuclear Engineering Institute, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil | Brazilian Federation of Air Traffic Controllers Association, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: paulov@ien.gov.br

Keywords: air traffic, Brazilian Air traffic Control System (ATS), Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP)

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0162-232

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 232-239, 2012

Published: 2012
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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 be happen.

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