Qatar B788 and Ethiopian A359 over Somalia on Feb 24th 2024, TCAS saves the day after conflicting ATC instructions
Last Update: February 25, 2024 / 19:21:25 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Feb 24, 2024
Classification
Incident
Airline
Qatar Airways
Flight number
QR-1383
Departure
Doha, Qatar
Destination
Entebbe, Uganda
Aircraft Registration
A7-BCN
Aircraft Type
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner
ICAO Type Designator
B788
An Ethiopian Airlines Airbus A350-900, registration ET-ATY performing flight ET-602 from Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) to Dubai (United Arab Emirates), was enroute at FL390 in Somaliland's/Somalia's Airspace about 180nm northeast of Hargeisa in contact with Somaliland Hargeisa Center.
Climbing through FL385 the Boeing received a TCAS resolution advisory to descend and descended back to FL380 resolving the conflict.
Somaliland's Civil Aviation Authority released a statement on Feb 24th 2024:
Today at around 12:32 pm in East Africa, the Qatar Airways flight (Qatar 6U) that came from the Valley to Entebbe and was flying at a constant altitude (38000ft) was wrongly told by the controllers in Mogadishu to climb to 40,000 feet.
They were flying at the same time and were facing an Ethiopian Airlines flight number (Ethiopia 602) which was flying from Addis to Dubai.
But fortunately, the TCAS (Traffic Avoidance Collision System) device attached to the plane gave an urgent warning and told the presence of the other plane. ,00ft.
The planes were at a dangerous distance from each other, but the equipment attached to the two planes was saved.
Somaliland and Somalia struggle over who is in control of the airspace. In 2019 ICAO had assigned the control of entire Airspace of Somalia to Somalia's government in Mogadishu stating:
As you might be following up, the management of the airspace of Somalia had been transferred from ICAO-FISS Project-SOM14802 to the Somali Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) of the Federal Government of Somalia with effect from 1st AUG 2019. Thereafter, Somali Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) has been responsible for the provision of Air Navigation Services in the entire airspace of Somalia including Aeronautical Information Service/Management.
Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is an internationally unrecognized state internationally deemed to be part of Somalia.
This conflict between Somaliland and Somalia endangers international air traffic over Somalia, in particular over Somaliland and the Gulf of Aden.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Feb 24, 2024
Classification
Incident
Airline
Qatar Airways
Flight number
QR-1383
Departure
Doha, Qatar
Destination
Entebbe, Uganda
Aircraft Registration
A7-BCN
Aircraft Type
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner
ICAO Type Designator
B788
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