Applying Passive Defense Strategies for Runway Safety (A Case Study: Mehrabad International Airport)

Reducing vulnerability, loss and damage of facilities, equipment and manpower of vital military and civilian centers in the country against threats and enemies is one of the most important objectives of passive defense. Designing strategies for passive defense in industry requires coordination between industrial managers and passive defense specialists, even in air transport industries. In the time of crisis, especially wars, airports are used both as the means of military operations and people medical assistance. Hence, disturbing the process of servicing could leave negative effects on the country’s defensive actions against the enemy’s invasion. As a result, by having safer runways, it can be expected that in the tough and critical situations, airports play significant roles in declining the crisis. By focusing on the part of air accidents and incidents, some scientific and practical strategies could be presented in order to prevent these events, and consequently presents continuity of airports’ servicing in the critical situations like wars. In this way, firstly, this study examines the nature and causes of accidents and incidents of runways. Such accidents are divided into two categories: runway incursion and runway excursion. In the runway incursion, aircrafts collide with each other, vehicles crossing the runway surfaces or even humans. However, the runway excursion occurs while the planes leave the end or the sides of runways during landing or take-off operations. Moreover, modeling of accidents and incidents caused by the runway excursion and proposed applicable examinations involve an important part of this research as well. The most important result of this research is to calculate the risk of obstacles at airports in Iran.