ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 206930
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| Date: | 24-SEP-2017 |
| Time: | 16:28 LT |
| Type: |  Airbus A320-214 (WL) |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot |
| Registration: | VQ-BSE |
| C/n / msn: | 5989 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 162 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Serious incident |
| Location: | 12 km SW of Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS/EDDL) -
 Germany
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | International Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO/UUEE) |
| Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS/EDDL) | |
| Investigating agency: | BFU Germany |
An Aeroflot Airbus A320 (VQ-BSE), operating flight SU2154 from Moscow, and an Asso V Champion ultralight (D-MDTC) were involved in a serious airprox incident near Düsseldorf International Airport in Germany.
The pilot of the Asso V was en route from Freiburg to Lauenbrück in Germany when the circuit breaker of his radio and navigation equipment tripped. He navigated by using his aeronautical charts and in the process entered class D airspace in the approach path of Düsseldorf Airport from south to north.
At the same time, the A320 was performing an ILS approach to runway 05R.
At 16:28:00 the Düsseldorf controller radioed to A320: "[…] there is VFR traffic now in your two o’clock position, by two miles, is indicating two-thousand-four-hundred feet, you have him in sight?". Flight SU2154 replied: "Negative".
At the time of the transmission, the Short term conflict alert (STCA) warned the controller of the conflict.
Then the A320's ACAS generated a Traffic Advisory (TA), followed by a Resolution Advisory (RA) to climb.
Simultaneously the controller radioed: "[…], traffic is one o’clock, one mile." Replies by SU2154 were unintelligible. The crew were in the process of dealing with the conflict and began to climb.
Subsequently, the approach A320 flew a 360° turn and lined up for runway 05R again. The Airbus then continued for a safe landing.
The BFU reported that the vertical separation was 100 feet at a horizontal separation of 0,8 NM (1,48 km). The Airbus overflew the ultralight at a 600 feet vertical separation. Horizontal separation at that point was 0,07 NM (130 meters).
The investigation is ongoing.
Sources:
BFU17-1311-EX
https://www.bfu-web.de/DE/Publikationen/Bulletins/2017/Bulletin2017-09.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
https://www.flightradar24.com/2017-09-24/14:26/12x/DMDTC/efab2ab
Images:
Photo of VQ-BSE courtesy AirHistory.net
Düsseldorf - International (EDDL / DUS)
3 October 2019; (c) Pertti Sipilä
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Mar-2018 20:17 | harro | Added |
| 01-Mar-2018 21:02 | harro | Updated [Total occupants, Narrative, Photo, ] |
| 02-Mar-2018 11:00 | penu | Updated [Narrative] |
| 04-Mar-2018 10:19 | Chieftain | Updated [Narrative] |
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