Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2023-01-12 · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport · B737 / B737 · RWY 15R · Category B

  VEHICLE CROSSED RUNWAY 15R WITHOUT ATC AUTHORIZATION. VEHICLE WAS ON ARFF ROAD AND INSTRUCTED TO CROSS RUNWAY 10 AND HOLD SHORT RUNWAY 15R AT ARFF ROAD. THE DRIVER READ BACK CROSS RUNWAY 10 AND 15R. GC DID NOT CATCH THE INCORRECT READ-BACK. VEHICLE CROSSED RUNWAY 15R WITHOUT ATC APPROVAL. AIRCRAFT 2/B737 WAS DEPARTING ON RUNWAY 15R AND CROSSED THE RUNWAY 15R/ARFF ROAD INTERSECTION AT A REPORTED ALTITUDE OF 25 FEET AND 146 KNOTS. AT THAT TIME, VEHICLE WAS ON TAXIWAY Y, APPROXIMATELY 57 FEET FROM THE RUNWAY'S WEST EDGE, AND TRAVELING AT 45 KNOTS. THE CLOSEST ESTIMATED HORIZONTAL SEPARATION OCCURRED AT A DISTANCE OF 173 FEET.

• 2007-12-02 · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport · CRJ1 / A320 · RWY 15R/10 · Category B

  AN AIRBUS A320 WAS CLEARED TO LAND RUNWAY 10 AND WAS APPROXIMATELY 6 MILE FINAL WHEN LOCAL CONTROL (LC) CLEARED A CANADAIR CRJ1 FOR TAKEOFF ON INTERSECTING RUNWAY 15R FULL LENGTH. THE CRJ1 WAS TAXIING ON TAXIWAY PAPA ABOUT 500 FEET SHORT OF RUNWAY 15R WHEN TAKEOFF CLEARANCE WAS ISSUED. THE CRJ1 ROTATED AT AN ESTIMATED 3,500 FROM DEPARTURE POINT, NEAR TAXIWAY FOXTROT, APPROXIMATELY 1,800 FEET FROM 10/15R INTERSECTION AND FLEW PAST THE INTERSECTION BY AN ESTIMATED 300 FEET VERTICAL AS THE A320 WAS ENTERING RUNWAY 10/15R INTERSECTION. AMASS ANALYSIS STATES THE LATERAL DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO AIRCRAFT AS THE DEPARTURE WAS IN THE CENTER OF INTERSECTION 10/15R AND THE A320 WAS ROLLING OUT WAS 480 FEET. AT THIS POINT, THE DEPARTING AIRCRAFT WAS STILL WITHIN RADAR COVERAGE, WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY 200 FEET ABOVE THE SURFACE. AWE 83 EXITED RUNWAY 10 AT RUNWAY 22, WHICH IS A NORMAL EXIT POINT. THIS EVENT MET THE PARAMETERS ESTABLISHED WITHIN AMASS TO CAUSE AN ALARM AND AN ALERT WAS RECEIVED.

• 2005-09-14 · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport · B737 · RWY 4 · Category B

  A BOEING B737 WAS ON A VOR APPROACH RUNWAY 4 AND REQUESTED A LEFT 360 DEGREE TURN TO GET DOWN IN ALTITUDE. THE TURN WAS APPROVED AND THE B737 WAS CLEARED TO LAND RUNWAY 4. ON EXECUTING A LEFT TURN ROLL OUT THE B737 ATTEMPTED TO LAND ON RUNWAY 10 THAT WAS CLOSED WITH MEN AND EQUIPMENT LOCATED AT INTERSECTION OF RUNWAY 10/15R. THE B737 WAS 1,000 FEET PAST LANDING THRESHOLD DOWN RUNWAY 10 AND 50 AGL WHEN SENT AROUND. THE B737 PASSED THE 10/33 INTERSECTION AT 250 FEET AGL.

• 2002-02-09 · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport · A319 / MD11 · RWY 15R · Category B