<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1488276, October 2017

ZDV center controller reported receiving a NORDO aircraft that wasn't in radar coverage below the minimum vectoring altitude.

Attributes
ACN	1488276
Time
Date	201710
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZDV.ARTCC
State Reference	CO
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Bonanza 33
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Enroute
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Experience	Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 29
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

Aircraft X was handed off to me at 6000 ft; IFR but non-radar. The transferring controller advised me that they were not in radio communication with aircraft X. I called back and had them transmit in the blind for the aircraft to climb to 8000 ft for the MVA (minimum vectoring altitude). I started to pick up aircraft X just as he crossed into the 7000 ft MVA area and could see that the aircraft was climbing out of 6200 ft.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: ZDV Center Controller reported receiving a NORDO aircraft that wasn't in radar coverage below the Minimum Vectoring Altitude.

Narrative: Aircraft X was handed off to me at 6000 ft; IFR but non-radar. The transferring controller advised me that they were not in radio communication with Aircraft X. I called back and had them transmit in the blind for the aircraft to climb to 8000 ft for the MVA (Minimum Vectoring Altitude). I started to pick up Aircraft X just as he crossed into the 7000 ft MVA area and could see that the aircraft was climbing out of 6200 ft.

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.