2002-08 · NASA ASRS report 558197
RWY INCURSION AS AN MD80 TAXIES PAST TXWY P ONTO RWY 4 AT BWI; MD.
WE WERE CLRED TO TAXI TO RWY 15R AT BWI ARPT FROM OUR GATE. THE TAXI RTE ASSIGNED WAS TXWY C; TXWY P; TO RWY 15R. UPON EXITING THE ALLEYWAY; THE CAPT CALLED FOR THE TAXI CHKLIST. AS I WAS RUNNING THE CHKLIST; I LOOKED UP AS THE GND CTLR STATED WE WERE ENTERING RWY 4 AT TXWY C. HE SAID NO PROB; TAXI DOWN RWY R TO TXWY P1; THEN TXWY P; TXWY A TO RWY 15R. SO; WE CONTINUED THE TURN ONTO RWY 4 AND FOLLOWED HIS DIRECTIONS. AT THE TIME; ATIS WAS CALLING RWYS 10; 15L; AND 15R IN USE. IMMEDIATELY AFTER US; A B737 ALSO MADE THE R TURN ONTO RWY 4 AT TXWY C. HE WAS ALSO TOLD NO PROB AND GIVEN THE SAME TAXI INSTRUCTIONS WE WERE. BECAUSE THE RWY WAS NOT IN USE; NO CONFLICT WITH ANOTHER ACFT WAS INVOLVED. CONTRIBUTING TO THIS OCCURRENCE WERE SEVERAL FACTORS: RUNNING THE CHKLIST DISTR ME AND THE CAPT WAS CONFUSED BY THE TAXI DIAGRAM. INTENDING TO MAKE THE FIRST TURN OUT OF THE ALLEYWAY; HE TURNED PAST THE FIRST ISLAND HE SAW; WHICH WAS ACTUALLY THE ISLAND BTWN TXWY P AND RWY 4. ALSO; THIS INTXN IS NOT LABELED AS ONE OF THE HOT SPOTS AT BWI. SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FROM ACN 557733: I CONSULTED THE ARPT DIAGRAM AND REVIEWED THE RTE. THAT TURN FROM TXWY C IS STAGGERED LATERALLY FROM THE TURN ONTO RWY 4. I DIDN'T SEE THE TURN ONTO TXWY P AND MADE THE FIRST TURN THAT I SAW.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
Loading the flight search…
Pick an aircraft model — Boeing 737, Airbus A320, A380, Boeing 787 Dreamliner and more — enter your origin airport, and FlightFinder shows every route that plane flies from there with live fares.
We support Boeing 737/747/757/767/777/787, the full Airbus A220/A319/A320/A321/A330/A340/A350/A380 family, Embraer E170/E175/E190/E195, Bombardier CRJ and Dash 8, and the ATR 42/72 turboprops.
Search and schedules are free. Pro ($4.99/month, $39/year, or $99 one-time lifetime) unlocks the enriched flight card — on-time stats, CO₂ per passenger, amenities, live gate & weather — plus My Trips with push alerts.
Live schedules come from Amadeus, AeroDataBox and Travelpayouts. Observed routes (which aircraft actually flew a given city pair) are crowdsourced from adsb.lol ADS-B data under the Open Database License.