Billings Logan International Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2022-08-15 · Billings Logan International Airport · B190 / CL60 · RWY 10L AT TWY B · Category B

  AIRCRAFT 1 CROSSED RUNWAY 10L WITHOUT ATC AUTHORIZATION. LC CLEARED AIRCRAFT 2/CL60 FOR TAKEOFF RUNWAY 10L. GC INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 1/B190 TO TAXI TO RUNWAY 28R AT TAXIWAY B. THE PILOT READBACK WAS CORRECT. GC ADVISED AIRCRAFT 1 THAT A CL60 WAS DEPARTING 10L AND TO EXPECT WAKE TURBULENCE. AIRCRAFT 1 CROSSED RUNWAY 10L AT B FROM NORTH TO SOUTH IN FRONT OF AIRCRAFT 2 DEPARTING RUNWAY 10L. AIRCRAFT 2 BECAME AIRBORNE JUST PRIOR TO TAXIWAY C. THE CLOSEST PROXIMITY WAS APPROXIMATELY 2361 FEET. AIRCRAFT 2 OVERFLEW AIRCRAFT 1 BY APPROXIMATELY 250 FEET.

• 2016-10-27 · Billings Logan International Airport · C172 · RUNWAL 28L · Category A

  VEH#1 WAS AUTHORIZED BY GROUND CONTROL TO OPERATE BETWEEN TAXIWAYS GOLF AND HOTEL WHILE A/C#1 WAS ON FINAL APPROACH TO RUNWAY 28L. WHEN GROUND CONTROL WAS ALERTED TO THE CONFLICT, HE INSTRUCTED VEH#1 TO STOP, WHICH PUT THE VEHICLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE APPROACH AREA FOR RUNWAY 28L. ATC REPORTED THAT A/C#1 FLEW DIRECTLY OVER VEH#1 ON APPROACH AND CLEARED VEH#1 BY ABOUT 10 FEET. IN A CONVERSATION WITH THE PILOT OF A/C#1, THE PILOT REPORTED THAT HE SAW THE VEHICLE, TRIED NOT TO FLY DIRECTLY OVER THE TOP, AND THAT HE WAS 50? AGL WHEN HE PASSED VEH#1. A/C#1 SUBSEQUENTLY LANDED ON RUNWAY 28L. BIL STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES PARAGRAPH 4-4-6 REQUIRES ATC TO PROTECT THE FAR PART 77 APPROACH SURFACE OVER TAXIWAY GOLF FOR AIRCRAFT AND VEHICLES 11?3? OR TALLER. VEH#1 REPORTED HEIGHT IS 11?4? TALL AND EXCEEDS THIS HEIGHT RESTRICTION. THE DISTANCE FROM THE APPROACH END OF RUNWAY 28L TO THE CENTERLINE OF TAXIWAY GOLF IS APPROXIMATELY 475?.