What is NASA/ASRS?
Reprinted with permission from the
FAA Aviation News
The primary mission
of the FAA is to promote aviation safety. To further this mission, the
FAA instituted a voluntary Aviation Safety Reporting Program (ASRP),
designed to encourage the identification and reporting of deficiencies
and discrepancies in the airspace system. The FAA determined that the
ASRP effectiveness would be greatly enhanced if the FAA accomplished
by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) rather
than the receipt, processing, and analysis of raw data. This would
ensure the anonymity of the reporter and of all parties involved in a
reported occurrence or incident and, consequently, increase the flow
of information necessary for the effective evaluation of the safety
and efficiency of the system.
To ensure your
anonymity, NASA will return the identification strip to you once they
are sure that no further information is required from you. The
identification strip, stamped by NASA, is proof that you have
submitted a report to the ASRS. Also, Title 14, Code of Federal
Regulations - 29.25 specifies that FAA will not use reports submitted to
the NASA under the ASRP (or information derived there from) in any
enforcement action except information concerning accidents or criminal
offenses, which are wholly excluded from the Program. In addition, the
reporter cannot have been involved in any enforcement action within
the previous five years and the incident must be reported to ASRS
within 10 days of the event.
This cooperative
safety-reporting program invites pilots, controllers, flight
attendants, maintenance personnel, and other users of the National
Airspace System (NAS), or any other person, to report to NASA actual
or potential discrepancies and deficiencies involving the safety of
aviation operations. The operations covered by the program include
departure, en route, approach, and landing operations and procedures,
air traffic control procedures and equipment, crew and air traffic
control communications, aircraft cabin operations, aircraft movement
on the airport, near midair collisions, aircraft maintenance and
record keeping, and airport conditions or services. The effectiveness
of this program in improving safety depends on the free, unrestricted
flow of information from the users of the NAS. Based on information
obtained from this program, FAA will take corrective action as
necessary to remedy defects or deficiencies in the NAS. The reports
may also provide data for improving the current system and planning
for a future system.
For more information
on the ASRS, FAA Advisory Circular 00-46C is available on FAA's Web
site at
www.faa.gov or check the ASRS
Web site at
http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/.
Reporting Forms
The NASA/ASRS
Reporting Forms (General, ATC Controller, Maintenance, and Cabin Crew)
can be obtained free of charge from FAA Flight Standards District
Offices, FAA Flight Service Stations, or from the ASRS Web site at
http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/.
Click on the link
for the appropriate form and you have two choices for submitting an
incident report:
1. Fill out the form
on your computer, print the completed form, attach all pages together,
enclose in an envelope, seal, affix sufficient postage, and mail to
ASRS at the address below, or
2. Print the
uncompleted form, fill it out by hand, attach all pages together,
enclose in an envelope, seal, affix sufficient postage, and mail to
ASRS.
Please do not e-mail
or fax an incident report or any incident information to ASRS!
Electronic mail communication is not secure. Therefore, ASRS cannot
accept incident reports by e-mail. ASRS is working on developing
secure electronic submission of aviation safety incident reports in
future. Mail your completed form to:
NASA
Aviation
Safety Reporting System
P.O. Box 189
Moffett Field, CA 94035-0189
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