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A TRACON controller reported becoming distracted with personal matters and forgot to handoff and coordinate with the tower an arriving aircraft.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1409564 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201612 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ROA.TRACON |
| State Reference | VA |
| Environment | |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Small Transport |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 135 |
| Flight Phase | Descent |
| 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) 7.0 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
Aircraft X was an overflight at 10;000 feet. I took the handoff from gso and then got distracted by [writing a personal list] and forgot about him. Aircraft X called and I switched him. Then I called hsp to make sure they got him. However; I did not call him radar contact lost because I thought I had handed them off to the hsp tower. When hsp asked me if I could hand them off I said I couldn't. It was too late to call aircraft X radar contact lost but I should have thought to tell hsp tower.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A TRACON Controller reported becoming distracted with personal matters and forgot to handoff and coordinate with the Tower an arriving aircraft.
Narrative: Aircraft X was an overflight at 10;000 feet. I took the handoff from GSO and then got distracted by [writing a personal list] and forgot about him. Aircraft X called and I switched him. Then I called HSP to make sure they got him. However; I did not call him radar contact lost because I thought I had handed them off to the HSP tower. When HSP asked me if I could hand them off I said I couldn't. It was too late to call Aircraft X radar contact lost but I should have thought to tell HSP tower.
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.