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Reporter describes situation where electrical maintenance is being done at facility and center does not do a hand off to the facility causing panic to clear the runway with an aircraft on a 3 mile final.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1171770 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201405 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | MHT.TRACON |
| State Reference | NH |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Large Transport |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Final Approach |
| Route In Use | Other Instrument Approach |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Other / Unknown |
| Qualification | Air Traffic Control Fully Certified |
| Experience | Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 10 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | ATC Issue All Types Airspace Violation All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
We were in the middle of some electrical maintenance being done on the whole facility. The power was scheduled to be out for several hours. We made the appropriate notifications to all concerned facilities. We contacted ZBW watch desk to get a list of inbound aircraft and was informed that our last arrival would be at xa:30. When the power went out we lost all equipment except the etvs and the frequencies which were on ups. Unbeknown to us; A90 was also experiencing some issues with the power and had lost radar and some communications. Aircraft X called us on a 3 mile final to runway 17. We had to scramble to get vehicles off the runway so we could clear the aircraft to land. A90 or ZBW never called to let us know we had an inbound aircraft. We were never informed that we had more aircraft inbound to the airport. Aircraft X was in communication with A90 because he informed us that he requested RY6 and A90 said it was not available. We were in an ATC alert status.need a better plan from adjacent facilities to help us when we are in this situation. Seems that the other facilities didn't take this serious enough.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Reporter describes situation where electrical maintenance is being done at facility and center does not do a hand off to the facility causing panic to clear the runway with an aircraft on a 3 mile final.
Narrative: We were in the middle of some electrical maintenance being done on the whole facility. The power was scheduled to be out for several hours. We made the appropriate notifications to all concerned facilities. We contacted ZBW watch desk to get a list of inbound aircraft and was informed that our last arrival would be at XA:30. When the power went out we lost all equipment except the ETVS and the frequencies which were on UPS. Unbeknown to us; A90 was also experiencing some issues with the power and had lost radar and some communications. Aircraft X called us on a 3 mile final to Runway 17. We had to scramble to get vehicles off the runway so we could clear the aircraft to land. A90 or ZBW never called to let us know we had an inbound aircraft. We were never informed that we had more aircraft inbound to the airport. Aircraft X was in communication with A90 because he informed us that he requested RY6 and A90 said it was not available. We were in an ATC ALERT status.Need a better plan from adjacent facilities to help us when we are in this situation. Seems that the other facilities didn't take this serious enough.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.