The Arresting wires are the key assembly of aircraft landing system on the carrier, the most of all the current detection systems have not the ability of ration detection, and the precision of the system are low. For these deficiency, an on-line detection system for arresting wires was designed, the on-line automatic monitor algorithm, local fault (LF) algorithm were studied. The system detecting destructive by the on-scene detection mode, fast transferring the detection data to the distant PC by industry Ethernet, analyzing and processing the data by software in PC; the experiment shows that the system designed having the ability to ration assessment of LF, detection speed being fast, detection precision being high, and compliance to operational condition.