Charleston International Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2021-02-04 · Charleston International Airport · C172 / P8 · CHS RUNWAY 15 · Category A

  ATC DID NOT PROVIDE RUNWAY SEPARATION BETWEEN TWO ARRIVING AIRCRAFT. AIRCRAFT 1/C172 WAS CLEARED TO LAND ON RUNWAY 15. THE LOCAL CONTROLLER THEN RE-CLEARED AIRCRAFT 1 TO LAND ON RUNWAY 15, BUT TO HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 21, TO ALLOW FOR MULTIPLE RUNWAY 21 DEPARTURES. THE PILOT READ BACK WAS CORRECT. AIRCRAFT 2/P8 WAS INBOUND TO RUNWAY 15 BEHIND AIRCRAFT 1 AND WAS CLEARED FOR THE OPTION. UPON TOUCHING DOWN, AIRCRAFT 2 RECOGNIZED THAT AIRCRAFT 1 WAS HOLDING ON RUNWAY 15 SHORT OF RUNWAY 21. AIRCRAFT 2 DECIDED TO LAND ON RUNWAY 15 RATHER THAN PERFORM THE OPTION. AIRCRAFT 2 CAME TO A STOP APPROXIMATELY 20 FEET BEHIND AIRCRAFT 1. THE MEMORY AID LIGHT PRESCRIBED FOR USE BY THE CONTROLLER WAS NOT UTILIZED DURING THE EVENT. BOTH AIRCRAFT TAXIED TO RAMPS WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT.

• 2009-12-18 · Charleston International Airport · C525 / CRJ2 · RWY 33 · Category A

  A CESSNA C525 LANDED ON RUNWAY 33 AND WAS INSTRUCTED BY LOCAL (LC) TO TURN LEFT ON TAXIWAY ECHO. THE C525 PILOT CONTACTED GROUND (GC) AND WAS INSTRUCTED TO TURN LEFT ON DELTA AND LEFT ON FOXTROT, CROSS RUNWAY 3 AND HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 15. (ECHO ON THE EAST SIDE OF RUNWAY 33 IS CLOSED FOR CONSTRUCTION AND RUNWAY 3 HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR APPROXIMATELY 8 MONTHS FOR CONSTRUCTION). THE C525 PILOT READ BACK THE CLEARANCE. AS THE C525 APPROACHED THE LEFT TURN ON FOXTROT THE PILOT QUESTIONED GC ON HIS CLEARANCE AND WAS TOLD TURN LEFT ON FOXTROT AND HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 33. THE CLEARANCE AND HOLD SHORT WAS READ BACK BUT NO CALL SIGN WAS GIVEN DURING THE READ BACK. THE C525 DID NOT HOLD SHORT, ENTERED RUNWAY 33 AND CONFLICTED WITH A CANADAIR CRJ2 ON DEPARTURE ROLL RUNWAY 33 FULL LENGTH (APPROXIMATELY 1,800 FEET FROM FOXTROT). IT APPEARS THAT CRJ2 PILOT AND LC SAW THE CONFLICT AT THE SAME TIME AS THE PILOT ABORTED AND AS LC INSTRUCTED THE CRJ2 TO ABORT. THE C525 PILOT SAW THE CRJ2 ON DEPARTURE ROLL AND ACCELERATED ACROSS AND OFF THE RUNWAY. THE CRJ2 SWERVED TO PASS BEHIND THE C525. CLOSEST HORIZONTAL PROXIMITY REPORTED WAS ESTIMATED AT 20 FEET.

• 2005-03-08 · Charleston International Airport · C560 · RWY 15 · Category A

  LOCAL CONTROL (LC) CLEARED A CESSNA C560 FOR TAKEOFF FULL LENGTH ON CLOSED RUNWAY 21. MEN AND EQUIPMENT WERE ON RUNWAY 21 IN THE VICINITY OF TAXIWAY FOXTROT (APPROXIMATELY 2,000 FEET FROM APPROACH END). THE MEN WERE ABLE TO EXIT THE RUNWAY EXCEPT FOR ONE TRUCK. THE C560 ROTATED 500 FEET FROM THE TRUCK AND OVER FLEW IT BY LESS THAN 100 FEET.