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Air carrier dispatcher reports a flight crew accepting an ATC reroute through weather he had flight planned to avoid and doing so against his specific advice.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1194437 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201408 |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Taxi |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Dispatcher |
| Qualification | Dispatch Dispatcher |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
Flight was planned on a route to avoid an active SIGMET area with thunderstorm tops to FL450. During taxi crew advised me that they had received a re-route. I plotted the re-route on flight explorer and it went through the area of weather I planned to avoid. I advised crew not to accept the reroute due to severe weather along the route. I further advised the crew to request original filed route. On the map display; I observed the flight became airborne and they had accepted the ATC assigned re-a route that would take the flight into unsafe conditions. Furthermore; the crew did not communicate their decision to disregard my safety warning. Subsequent contact efforts by the relieving dispatcher were also ignored. Lack of communication with the dispatcher; as well as accepting ATC re-routes without dispatcher consent are becoming more commonplace.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Air Carrier Dispatcher reports a flight crew accepting an ATC reroute through weather he had flight planned to avoid and doing so against his specific advice.
Narrative: Flight was planned on a route to avoid an active SIGMET area with thunderstorm tops to FL450. During taxi crew advised me that they had received a re-route. I plotted the re-route on Flight Explorer and it went through the area of weather I planned to avoid. I advised crew not to accept the reroute due to severe weather along the route. I further advised the crew to request original filed route. On the map display; I observed the flight became airborne and they had accepted the ATC assigned re-a route that would take the flight into unsafe conditions. Furthermore; the crew did not communicate their decision to disregard my safety warning. Subsequent contact efforts by the relieving Dispatcher were also ignored. Lack of communication with the Dispatcher; as well as accepting ATC re-routes without Dispatcher consent are becoming more commonplace.
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.