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Pct TRACON controller reported assigning a heading to an aircraft that caused it to enter prohibited airspace.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1505967 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201712 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | PCT.TRACON |
| State Reference | VA |
| Environment | |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B757-300 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Initial Approach |
| Route In Use | Vectors |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Approach |
| Qualification | Air Traffic Control Fully Certified |
| Experience | Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 1 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | ATC Issue All Types Airspace Violation All Types Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Track / Heading All Types Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence |
Narrative:
Dca was in a south configuration with weather all around the airspace. I was working arrival sectors all combined. A busy spurt happened. The winds at 3000 ft were 240 at 62 knots. Due to the winds and the traffic most of the aircraft were on vectors to final. I had to take my aircraft from the south across the airspace to the east downwind. Aircraft X was turned to final but the tail wind carried them a lot faster than the aircraft that they were following and standard separation would not have been maintained. I cancelled aircraft X's approach clearance and climbed them to 4000 ft to be re-sequenced. I meant to say to stay on the localizer but I said fly present heading; the wind pushed the aircraft off of the final approach course and the aircraft entered prohibited airspace. Once I realized the aircrafts proximity to the prohibited area I turned them westbound out of the airspace. No other incidents occurred. Standard separation between aircraft was maintained.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: PCT TRACON Controller reported assigning a heading to an aircraft that caused it to enter prohibited airspace.
Narrative: DCA was in a south configuration with weather all around the airspace. I was working Arrival sectors all combined. A busy spurt happened. The winds at 3000 ft were 240 at 62 knots. Due to the winds and the traffic most of the aircraft were on vectors to final. I had to take my aircraft from the south across the airspace to the east downwind. Aircraft X was turned to final but the tail wind carried them a lot faster than the aircraft that they were following and standard separation would not have been maintained. I cancelled Aircraft X's approach clearance and climbed them to 4000 ft to be re-sequenced. I meant to say to stay on the localizer but I said fly present heading; the wind pushed the aircraft off of the final approach course and the aircraft entered Prohibited airspace. Once I realized the aircrafts proximity to the prohibited area I turned them westbound out of the airspace. No other incidents occurred. Standard separation between aircraft was maintained.
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.