Date: 201410
Local time of day: 1201-1800
Location: D10.TRACON, TX
Flight conditions: VMC
Light: Daylight
Aircraft: Small Aircraft; Low Wing; 1 Eng; Retractable Gear
Flight plan: IFR
Flight phase: Final Approach
Airspace: Class E ZFW
ATC / advisory: TRACON D10
Reporter organization: Government
Reporter function: Approach
Reporter qualification: Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Human factors: Confusion; Situational Awareness
Anomaly: Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
When detected: In-flight
Result: Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance
Contributing factors: ATC Equipment / Nav Facility / Buildings; Human Factors; Procedure
Primary problem: Procedure

Narrative: Aircraft X was landing at Decatur Municipal (KLUD).  He was IFR in VFR conditions. ZFW cleared Aircraft X direct to a fix on the RNAV/GPS 17 approach and asked me if they could clear him for the approach since it is in their airspace.  I said yes and they cleared Aircraft X for the approach.  Aircraft X checked in with me and I asked him to report the field in sight.  He did so and I cleared him for the visual approach at LUD. I then asked him if he was going to Cancel IFR in the air or if he was going to cancel on the ground.  He said in the air; so I canceled his IFR; had him squawk VFR and changed him to advisory frequency. A short time later he returned to my frequency and said the Runway was NOTAMed closed and that there were construction vehicles on the runway.  I then gave him vectors to an alternate airport; where he landed without incident.  I was not briefed that the runway was NOTAMed closed; nor did it show on our IDS-5 page that the runway was NOTAMed closed. This has happened in our airspace before.  We have easily over 2 dozen uncontrolled airports in our airspace which get used regularly.  We have a procedure where flight data is supposed to print out all the NOTAMs each morning for the airports within our airspace and give them to the supervisor and they are supposed to go through them and make sure there are no NOTAMs that are happening that day at the airports in our airspace. This is quite regularly over 10 pages of NOTAMs and as recently as yesterday morning I was working flight data and attempted to print out the NOTAMs; however the printer was out of toner and there was no toner readily available anywhere in the TRACON. I informed the FLM who was going to report it to his superiors.  Whether or not this happened is unknown because I had to open a position to help with the mornings traffic.  In order to prevent this from happening again I suppose a better way to disseminate NOTAMs needs to be developed.  I'm not sure how far in advance NOTAMs are given for closing runways; however for something as important as that; the controlling facility should be given some sort of heads up prior and the day of to prevent such an occurrence from happening again. I am not technologically gifted enough to know if a system could be or is already developed that would give real time data to controllers on current NOTAMs; other than checking a computer; which is impossible on position.




Synopsis: D10 Controller reports of an aircraft that cancels IFR and goes to land at an uncontrolled airport. Unaware to the pilot or Controller the runway is NOTAMed closed. The aircraft contacts the Controller and goes to a new destination.