Regional Jet 200 ER/LR (CRJ200)
Dispatch Dispatcher
Other / Unknown; Distraction
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Airport; Human Factors; Aircraft
I released a flight with 1CH ANTI SKID inoperative. In an apparent lapse of concentration I missed the NOTAM shortening the runways at CMH. The remaining distance made the runway too short to meet regulatory requirements. Neither I nor the Captain caught this error; the crew did contact me in range to CMH and said they were having trouble getting landing numbers. I thought they were having a communication problem and gave them the numbers off the copy stored with the flight paperwork that showed 5;344 FT for the landing distance required. Runway 10R-28L had been reduced to 7;000 FT and 28R to 8;000 FT. It was not until a co-worker pointed out the runway NOTAM to me that I became aware of the error; by that time the aircraft was airborne on the way back. There is no excuse for missing a critical NOTAM like this. I will need to redouble my effort to spend a little more time to make sure that I am truly reading and comprehending the materials I look at not only NOTAMs; but also weather and MELs. I do not believe anything will be gained by additional training as I fully understand the limitations. I do think something would be gained if; when runways are NOTAMed out for long periods of time while under construction; the full length option was removed from the available selections. By doing this we would be adding additional level of redundancy. I also believe that crews should be running a landing prediction before departing so that when they sign a release they have looked at the whole flight and not just the departure. I do not know if the crews' procedures require this but it could also help stop events at a much earlier stage in the chain of failures that make up these events.
CRJ200 Dispatcher learns after the fact that he has dispatched an aircraft with an anti skid MEL to an airport with a shortened runway due to construction. The NOTAM was somehow missed or not correlated with the MEL. The aircraft was able to land and takeoff without issue; even though the runway length did not meet requirements for this MEL.