Airline and airport operations under lightning threats - Safety risks, impacts, uncertainties, and how to deal with them all

Matthias Steiner; Wiebke Deierling; Kyoko Ikeda; Eric Nelson; Randall Bass

Airline and airport operations under lightning threats - Safety risks, impacts, uncertainties, and how to deal with them all

Matthias Steiner, Wiebke Deierling, Kyoko Ikeda, Eric Nelson, Randall Bass

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Abstract

Safety assurance of personnel working outdoors to service gate-side parked aircraft and maintaining airport grounds requires work stops and ramp closures to bring people inside whenever thunderstorms and lightning occur nearby. Ramp closures cause downtimes that operators would like to minimize, yet the decision-making process for closing and reopening a ramp is burdened with notable uncertainties. This paper highlights the significant impacts of lightning-induced ramp closures on arriving and departing flights, discusses the uncertainties associated with ramp closure decisions and implementation thereof, and offers guidance toward improving the safety of outdoor personnel and minimizing avoidable operational inefficiencies.

Original language	English
Journal	Transactions of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering
Volume	51
Issue number	SUPPL.
State	Published - 2013
Event	35th Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2013 in conjunction with 52nd Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, JSMBE - Osaka, Japan Duration: Jul 3 2013 → Jul 7 2013

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Airline and airport operations under lightning threats - Safety risks, impacts, uncertainties, and how to deal with them all

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