A us based airline crew on a flight from the middle east to europe was filed through crimea (ukfv) u...

Attributes
ACN	1293968
Time
Date	201508
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	UKFV.ARTCC
State Reference	FO
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Widebody Transport
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Cruise
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying Relief Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 155 Flight Crew Total 11500 Flight Crew Type 155
Person 2
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150 Flight Crew Total 15000 Flight Crew Type 1600
Events
Anomaly	Airspace Violation All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

We were enroute from the middle east to europe and flew thru an airspace temporarily off limits to us airlines. This is a route I have flown many times in the past with similar routing. I was the operating international relief officer (international relief officer) and flying with two other crew members who were also very familiar with this route. We were filed for this flight by our company dispatcher on a 'normal' route and we missed the NOTAM identifying this particular airspace as temporarily off limits for us operators. I believe complacency played a role in this case; along with not closely enough reading all of notams listed in our flight paperwork. We do pass thru many countries and airspaces every day as international crew members and we sometimes think we are more familiar and comfortable than we probably should be. Also; the ever changing political climate in the world adds to the complexity of international airspace and this obviously affects the workload of international airline crew members. Bottom line; we all missed the pertinent NOTAM all the way down the line from our dispatcher to the other two crew members and myself. I will certainly pay much more attention to all details of my flight paper work in the future whether I am familiar with the route/flight or not.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A U.S. based airline crew on a flight from the Middle East to Europe was filed through Crimea (UKFV) unaware US carrier flight through that airspace was prohibited.

Narrative: We were enroute from the Middle East to Europe and flew thru an airspace temporarily off limits to U.S. Airlines. This is a route I have flown many times in the past with similar routing. I was the operating IRO (International Relief Officer) and flying with two other crew members who were also very familiar with this route. We were filed for this flight by our company dispatcher on a 'normal' route and we missed the NOTAM identifying this particular airspace as temporarily off limits for U.S. operators. I believe complacency played a role in this case; along with not closely enough reading all of NOTAMs listed in our flight paperwork. We do pass thru many countries and airspaces every day as International crew members and we sometimes think we are more familiar and comfortable than we probably should be. Also; the ever changing political climate in the world adds to the complexity of international airspace and this obviously affects the workload of international airline crew members. Bottom line; we all missed the pertinent NOTAM all the way down the line from our Dispatcher to the other two crew members and myself. I will certainly pay much more attention to all details of my flight paper work in the future whether I am familiar with the route/flight or not.

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.

A us based airline crew on a flight from the middle east to europe was filed through crimea (ukfv) unaware us carrier flight through that airspace was prohibited.