Safety Investigation Report 2018:1 Factual Information/1.18/1.18.1/1 Introduction
SAFETY INVESTIGATION REPORT MH370 (9M-MRO)
1.18.1 Provision of Air Traffic Services and Areas of Responsibilities
1) Introduction
For the provision of Air Traffic Services (ATS), the Kuala Lumpur FIR is divided into seven Sectors, namely Sector 1, Sector 2, Sector 3, Sector 4, Sector 5, Sector 6 and Sector 7.
Each Sector has a specified area of responsibility. Sectors 1 to 5 are manned by Sector Planning and Radar Controller jointly responsible for the safe, efficient and orderly provision of air traffic control service, flight information service and alerting service in their Sectors. Each Sector has an Assistant Flight Data (AFD) Controller.
Sector 6 is manned by a Radar Controller and supported by the Sector 1 Planning Controller and Sector 1 AFD Controller. Sector 7 is manned by a Radar Controller and supported by the Sector 2 Planning Controller and Sector 2 AFD Controller.
- a) Responsibilities of Sector Radar Controller:
- • Handle all radiotelephony functions;
- • When necessary, coordinate to effect transfer of radar identity and control;
- • Monitor the Sector Inbound List (SIL) to ensure appropriate action for orderly acceptance, control and transfer of aircraft; and
- • Comply with instructions issued by FLOW control.
- b) Responsibilities of Sector Planning Controller:
- • Plan and coordinate as necessary for the management of all flights that will operate in their sectors; and
- • Ensure that the information on the electronic flight strips (EFS) is updated.
The Radar and Planning Controllers will make available to each other information that is essential to enable them to carry out their responsibilities, e.g. change in cruising level/altitude or revision to transfer of control point estimates.
- c) Responsibilities of Controllers at AFD Position:
- • Assist the Planning Controller by ensuring that information displayed on the EFS is kept updated in a timely manner;
- • Ensure that essential information found on the EFS is also available on the paper strips;
- • Display the paper strips on the display board in the correct manner;
- • Make paper strips available to the EXE Controller if requested;
- • Wrap up all used strips, and place them at a common place for collection; and
- • Clear wrong ADP Message Queues as follows: