Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2013-06-20 · Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope Airport · B737 / PA31 · RWY 8 · Category B

  PA31 WAS ISSUED TAKEOFF CLEARANCE BY LOCAL CONTROL (LC) FROM THE FULL LENGTH OF RUNWAY 8 AT TAXIWAY CHARLIE. GROUND CONTROL (GC) ISSUED A B737 TAXI CLEARANCE TO RUNWAY 15 VIA TAXIWAY ALPHA AND HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 15. AFTER LC ISSUED THE PA31 TAKEOFF CLEARANCE GC REQUESTED AND LC APPROVED A RUNWAY 8 CROSSING AT INTERSECTION TAXIWAY ALPHA. GC INSTRUCTED THE B737 TO CROSS RUNWAY 8 NORTHBOUND TO TAXIWAY ALPHA FROM THE SOUTHEAST ALPHA GATES. THE CROSSING POINT LOCATION IS APPROXIMATELY 4200 FEET EAST OF THE RUNWAY 8 APPROACH END AND APPROXIMATELY 400 FEET EAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF RUNWAYS 8 AND 15. AS THE PA31 WAS CLIMBING OUT THE B737 MANEUVERED AROUND ANOTHER B737 IN THE RAMP AREA AND WITH CLEARANCE TO CROSS RUNWAY 8 TAXIED FORWARD WESTBOUND INTO THE RUNWAY SAFETY AREA (RSA) WITH A PORTION OF THE RIGHT WING OVER THE RUNWAY EDGE LINE. B737 QUESTIONED GC ABOUT THE RUNWAY CROSSING CLEARANCE REFERENCE THE PA31 CLIMBING OUT. RISK OF COLLISION WAS ABATED WHEN THE PA31 PASSED ABEAM INTERSECTION TAXIWAY ALPHA AT AN ESTIMATED CLOSEST PROXIMITY HEIGHT OF 300-400 AS THE B737 ENTERED RUNWAY