A B732 CREW; AFTER LNDG; TAXIED PAST THE HOLD SHORT LINE OF AN INTERSECTING RWY.

Date: 2001-11 · Aircraft: B737-200 · Phase: taxi

Anomalies: deviation-discrepancy-procedural-published-material-policy|deviation-discrepancy-procedural-far|deviation-discrepancy-procedural-clearance|ground-incursion-runway

Synopsis

A B732 CREW; AFTER LNDG; TAXIED PAST THE HOLD SHORT LINE OF AN INTERSECTING RWY.

Narrative

AFTER LNDG ON RWY 3 AT ABQ; I EXITED THE RWY AT TXWY C. TXWY C IS SET UP AS A HIGH SPD TXWY EXIT FROM RWY 3; SO MY TAXI SPD WAS PROBABLY 30 KTS AND DECREASING AS I TAXIED N ON TXWY C. MOMENTARILY; MY ATTN WAS DIVERTED TO 2 F16'S MAKING LOW APCHS; GARS; ON RWY 8. AS I REFOCUSED ON TXWY C; I REALIZED I WAS RAPIDLY APCHING RWY 30/12 AND HADN'T RECEIVED CLRNC TO CROSS. I BROUGHT THE ACFT TO A STOP; BUT NOT BEFORE I HAD CROSSED THE HOLD SHORT LINE. WITHIN SECONDS AFTER I HAD STOPPED; ABQ TWR TOLD US TO CONTACT GND. WHEN WE SWITCHED TO GND CTL; WE RPTED CLR OF RWY 3. GND CTL CLRED US TO CROSS RWY 12 AND TOLD US TO HOLD SHORT OF RWY 8. IN MY OPINION; THE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE: A MIND SET OF A QUICK TAXI TO OUR GATE IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET BACK ON SCHEDULE; THE FACT THAT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAD FLOWN WITH THIS FO AND I WAS NOT FAMILIAR WITH HOW HE MANAGED RADIO COM AND HOW TENTATIVE HE MIGHT BE WITH REGARD TO ASKING FOR A FREQ CHANGE OR CLRNC TO CONTINUE TAXIING; AND FINALLY THE FACT THAT THE TWR CTLR WAS TRYING TO MANAGE 2 DIFFERENT RWYS AND THE OPS OF AT LEAST 5 DIFFERENT ACFT SIMULTANEOUSLY (2 F16'S ON LOW APCH; 2 HOLDING SHORT AWAITING DEP ON RWY 8; AND 1 ACFT CLRING RWY 3 (OUR ACFT). SOLUTIONS: FIRST AND FOREMOST; A RE-EMPHASIS ON STOPPING WHEN CLRING AN ACTIVE RWY; SECOND; KEEPING THE PACE OF EVENTS SLOWER DURING THE FIRST COUPLE OF FLTS WITH AN UNFAMILIAR CREW MEMBER; AND FINALLY; WITH THIS LOCATION; THE INSTALLATION OF WIGWAG LIGHTS MAY HELP REMIND PLTS OF THE PRESENCE OF A RWY ALONG THIS TAXI RTE.

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