FOD AWARENESS Month. Presented By: Richard Allabaugh. Manassas Regional Airport. Airport Operations Officer 4/19/2018

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1 1 FOD AWARENESS Month Presented By: Richard Allabaugh Manassas Regional Airport Airport Operations Officer

2 FOD AWARENESS 2 What is FOD? FOD Fundamentals FOD Damage What can you do? Case Studies Questions

3 What is FOD? 3 F.O.D. Foreign Object Debris FAA - Any object, live or not, located in an inappropriate location in the airport environment that has the capacity to injure airport or air carrier personnel and damage aircraft * * FAA Advisory Circular 150/

4 FOD Fundamentals Sources of FOD Aircraft Airport Infrastructure Equipment Environment Personnel Vehicles 4 Types of FOD Aircraft Parts bolts, fasteners, fuel caps, metal sheets, covers Flight Line Items soda cans, pencils, pens, luggage tags, tools Apron Items paper, ramp equipment, luggage parts, catering Runway and Taxiway Materials asphalt, paint chips, light bulbs Construction Debris wood, stone, fasteners, tarps Winter Contaminants Wildlife

5 FOD Damage Foreign Object Debris Damage Any damage attributed to a foreign object that can be expressed in physical or economic terms which may or may not downgrade the product s safety or performance characteristics. * Related Damages Accounts for $12.4 Billion** 5 Direct Cost = $1.1 Billion (Commercial Traffic and Maintenance Cost) Indirect Cost = $11.3 Billion (Loss of aircraft, closing runway, etc) Aircraft components 20% more than original purchase price ( Aircraft out of service (time element) Personnel injuries * FAA Advisory Circular 150/ **Insight SRI The economic cost of FOD

6 What can you do? 6 Start a FOD Awareness Program Practice Tool Safety Keep Good FOD Housekeeping See FOD, Pick It Up Source: natasafety1st.com

7 What can you do? FOD Program Four Elements 1. Prevention Awareness Seminars Lifestyle Maintenance Construction Site Inspection Training Safety and Removal Procedures 2. Detection Operations CERTALERT Self-Inspection Equipment FAA AC 150/ Visual Radar Electro 7 3. Removal Personnel Magnetic Bars Rumble Strips ( FOD Shakers ) Sweeper Trucks Vacuum Trucks 4. Evaluation Documentation Inspection Form Reporting Tenant Involvement Improvement Self Assessment

8 What can you do? 8 FOD Program (cont d) FOD Awareness Month Complacency Weekly E-Blasts Brochures and Posters FOD Walks Public Involvement

9 What can you do? 9 Tool Safety and Accountability Inventory Management Shadow boards & shadowboxing Bar coding Special canvas layouts with tool pockets Tool counters Tool tags Consolidated tool kits Clean-As-You-Go Source:

10 FOD Housekeeping Loose Items Hats, Lanyards, Pens, Etc Food and Garbage Disposal Cover outdoor dumpsters. Throw away trash Sweeping Service Daily Monthly Quarterly What can you do? 10

11 Source: What can you do? 11 FOD Housekeeping (Cont d) Vehicle Checks Before entering the airfield: 1. Turn off the vehicle 2. Walk around the vehicle inspecting the tires and the entire vehicle for debris

12 What can you do? 12 Source: FOD Housekeeping (Cont d) Vehicle Checks Before entering the airfield: 3. Start the vehicle and roll forward approximately one foot or a 180 degree turn of the tires 4. Re-inspect the vehicle and tires 5. Proceed onto the airfield

13 FOD Damage: Case Study 1 13 July 25 th, 2000 Aerospatiale Concorde Paris Charles de Gaulle, France Accident due to destruction of tire caused by metal object from departing aircraft. Source: Source: bea-fr.org Concorde Accident Report

14 FOD Damage: Case Study 2 14 Source: March 26 th, 2007 Learjet 36A Newport News/Williamsburg International, Virginia Accident was caused by FOD on the runway.

15 FOD Damage: Case Study 3 15 March 12 th, 2013 Airbus A330 Mumbai, India Accident suspected to be caused by tool left inside one of the aircraft engines. Source: Source:

16 Resources Advisory Circulars AC 150/ Airport Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Management AC 150/ Foreign Object Debris Detection Equipment AC 150/ C Airport Safety Self-inspection AC 150/ Introduction to Safety Management Systems (SMS) for Airport Operators AC 150/5380-6B Guidelines and Procedures for Maintenance of Airport Pavements CERTALERT Certalert No Closing active runway for FOD checks increases safe operations 16 Websites FOD News Got FOD? ine/aero_01/textonly/s01txt.html Boeing FOD Damage and Prevention National Aerospace FOD Prevention, Inc. Research Paper The economic cost of FOD to airlines Insight SRI

17 QUESTIONS? C O N T A C T I N F O R I C H A R D A L L A B A U G H O P S L I N E D I R E C T R A L L A B A U G M A N A S S A S V A. G O V