Chandler Municipal Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2013-05-07 · Chandler Municipal Airport · HXA (EXP) · RWY 22L · Category A

  GLASAIR CALLED INBOUND AND WAS ASSIGNED AND SEQUENCED TO RUNWAY 22R. RUNWAY 22L WAS NOTAM’D CLOSED FOR SURFACE MARKING WORK. THE AIRPORT HAD PROPERLY LABELED THE CLOSED RUNWAY WITH ASSOCIATED VISUAL MARKINGS AND BARRICADES. THE RUNWAY CLOSURE WAS ALSO INCLUDED ON THE ATIS, WHICH THE PILOT REPORTED ON INITIAL CONTACT. LOCAL CONTROL (LC) CLEARED THE GLASAIR TO LAND ON RUNWAY 22R. READ BACK WAS CORRECT. GLASAIR LANDED ON CLOSED RUNWAY 22L. LC RECOGNIZED THE INCORRECT RUNWAY LANDING ONLY AFTER THE GLASAIR WAS ROLLING OUT ON RUNWAY 22L ABEAM TAXIWAY LIMA. THERE WERE MEN AND EQUIPMENT ON RUNWAY 22L THAT THE GLASAIR AVOIDED AS IT MADE ITS UNAUTHORIZED APPROACH AND LANDING. AS THE GLASAIR CROSSED THE LANDING THRESHOLD, THE PILOT PULLED UP AFTER SEEING VEHICLES AND PERSONNEL ON THE RUNWAY AND OVERFLEW THE WORKERS AND FOUR (4) VEHICLES ON THE APPROACH END OF RUNWAY 22L BY AN ESTIMATED 75-100 FEET. ON LANDING ROLL AT APPROXIMATELY MID-FIELD AND ABOVE TAXI SPEED, THE GLASAIR ENCOUNTERED TWO (2) MORE VEHICLES, ONE WHICH MOVED OUT OF THE WAY. THE OTHER VEHICLE WAS A STRIPER MACHINE, WHICH THE GLASAIR HAD TO STEER AROUND TO AVOID MISSING IT BY AN ESTIMATED LESS THAN 50 FEET. GLASAIR ROLLED TO THE END OF THE RUNWAY AND EXITED AT TAXIWAY HOTEL. THERE WERE NO REPORTED INJURIES OR DAMAGE.