A333 / C550, vicinity Madrid Barajas Spain, 2022

A333 / C550, vicinity Madrid Barajas Spain, 2022

Summary

On 13 July 2022, an Airbus A330-300 inbound to Madrid and descending on the 32L ILS and a Cessna Citation 550 which had just departed from Torrejón Air Base lost separation. The aircraft came within 400 feet vertically and 0.6nm horizontally after the Citation failed to follow its assigned and acknowledged departure clearance. A TCAS RA "DON’T CLIMB" message was annunciated on the A330 as the opposite-direction Citation, which the A330 crew subsequently reported having had briefly in sight, passed just above it. Detection of the conflict risk to ILS traffic inbound to Madrid was delayed by sub-optimal civil/military ATC coordination.

Description

On 13 July 2022, an Airbus A330-300 (C-GHLM) operated by Air Canada on a scheduled international passenger flight from Toronto to Madrid as ACA 824 and a Cessna Citation 550 (U20.03) operated by the Spanish Navy on a nonscheduled domestic passenger flight from the Spanish Air and Space Force base at Torrejón to Palma de Mallorca came into close proximity in day VMC. The event took place when the Citation began to cross the final approach flight paths to runways 32L and 32R at Madrid. A TCAS RA was annunciated on the A330 but as it was descending, no change of intended flight path was required. 

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