Tampa International Airport safety profile
26 recorded occurrences at or near Tampa International Airport (1986–2026): 12 at the airport, 14 nearby; 3 fatal, 5 fatalities.
What happens most
Runway incursions
The FAA Runway Safety database records 106 runway incursions at this airport, including 1 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2008-07-17 — Beech A36, Harlan Northcott (3 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2014-06-22 — MARTIN KI (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2013-10-19 (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2021-06-22 — CITY OF TAMPA — 0.0 km
- 2021-03-26 — Superior Aviation Gateway LLC — 0.0 km
- 2020-12-18 — 2.3 km
- 2020-02-28 — 0.0 km
- 2020-02-18 — Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office — 0.0 km
- 2019-08-21 — 0.6 km
- 2019-04-04 — 0.0 km
- 2019-03-24 — Mtn Aviation Llc — 0.0 km
- 2019-01-29 — Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office — 0.0 km
Runways
- 19R/01L: 11,002 ft, CON, lighted
- 19L/01R: 8,300 ft, PEM, lighted
- 10/28: 6,999 ft, PEM, lighted
Weather patterns
- Fog: 34.395 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 103.086 days/year
- Snow: 0.3 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0.007% of observations
- Crosswind >25kt: 0% of observations
Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.