Progress on Unstable Approaches
Citing progress in addressing the issue of unstable approaches that continue to landing, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has dropped the matter from its Watchlist of top transportation safety issues.
The issue was omitted from TSB’s Watchlist 2018, released in October, because of “actions taken by stakeholders and/or progress achieved in reducing the underlying safety deficiencies,” the TSB said.
Watchlist 2018 contains two aviation-specific issues, one each for the rail and marine sectors, and three that are considered multimodal.
The two aviation-specific items are the risk of collisions on runways due to runway incursions, and runway overruns. Both issues appeared on Watchlist 2016, and the risk of runway collisions also was on the 2014, 2012 and 2010 lists.
According to TSB, Nav Canada recorded an average of 445 runway incursions per year in Canada from 2013 to 2017, and the incursion rate per air…
