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Analysis and safety levels

Main trends of Safety in BULATSA for the first half of 2020

The registered occurrences during the first half of 2020, related to the safety in operational activities when providing Air Traffic Services (ATS), are as follows:  

  • No aviation incidents have been registered with severity class АА/А (accident/serious incident with contribution of ATS units).
  • No aviation incidents have been registered with severity class В (major incident with contribution of ATS units).
  • No aviation incidents have been registered with severity class С (significant incident with contribution of ATS units).
  • 2 incidents have been registered with severity class E, with contribution of ATS units, which had no safety consequences.
  • 188 incidents without contribution of ATS units, which are occurrences with severity class Е – without safety consequences, and severity class D – classified as unidentified occurrences without safety consequences.

Main trends in Safety for 2019

The registered occurrences during 2019, related to the safety in operational activities when providing Air Traffic Services (ATS), are as follows: 

  • No aviation incidents have been registered with severity class АА/А (accident/serious incident with contribution of ATS units).
  • 2 incidents have been registered with severity class В (major incident with contribution of ATS units).
  • 3 incidents have been registered with severity class С (significant incident with contribution of ATS units).
  • 11 incidents have been registered with severity class E, with contribution of ATS units, without safety implications.
  • 840 incidents without contribution of ATS units, which are occurrences with severity class Е without safety implications and severity class D classified as unspecified occurrences without safety implications.

Number of aviation incidents – trends:

For the period from 1997 to 2019, based on smoothed graph data for five and ten years respectively, there is a steady trend of retention of the level of safety for the last years.

Graph: ACHIEVED SAFETY LEVELS OF THE PROVIDED SERVICES AND TRENDS

In addition to the above, as a result of the annual SMS maturity survey – „EUROCONTROL CANSO SMS Standard of Excellence Measurement in 2019“, has been reported a result with level D (Assured: Evidence is available to provide confidence that SMS processes and/or requirements are being applied appropriately and are delivering positive, measured results).

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