Cleveland Hopkins International Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2014-01-18 · Cleveland Hopkins International Airport · CRJ9 · RWY 24L · Category B

  AIRPORT VEHICLES (3) WERE CONDUCTING NIGHTTIME DRIVER TRAINING. VEHICLES HAD CROSSED RUNWAY 24L ON TAXIWAY SIERRA. LOCAL CONTROL (LC) INSTRUCTED THE LEAD VEHICLE TO PROCEED ON TAXIWAYS GOLF AND ROMEO, HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 24L. READ BACK WAS CORRECT. VEHICLES CROSSED THE HOLD SHORT LINE FOR RUNWAY 24L AS CRJ9 WAS ON TAKE-OFF ROLL. AMASS ALERTED AND LC INSTRUCTED THE VEHICLES TO “STOP!”. LEAD VEHICLES STOPPED APPROXIMATELY 7 FEET FROM THE RUNWAY EDGE AFTER THE CRJ9 HAD PASSED TAXIWAY SIERRA. THE CLOSEST PROXIMITY AS THE CRJ9 PASSED THE VEHICLES WAS 70 FEET, TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE CRJ9 WINGSPAN.

• 2008-07-28 · Cleveland Hopkins International Airport · DH8A / CRJ2 · RWY 24L · Category B

  A DEHAVILLAND DH8A WAS ISSUED PROGRESSIVE TAXI INSTRUCTIONS TO RUNWAY 24R VIA LIMA, ROMEO, TO HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 24L. THE DH8A PILOT READ BACK INSTRUCTIONS AND THE HOLD SHORT FOR RUNWAY 24L. THE DH8A SWITCHED TO LOCAL CONTROL (LC) AS INSTRUCTED. LC ATTEMPTED TO STOP THE DH8A BEFORE ENTERING RUNWAY 24L AT ROMEO DUE TO A CANADAIR CRJ2 ON SHORT FINAL RUNWAY 24L. THE CRJ2 WAS CROSSING LANDING THRESHOLD AND INITIATED A GO-AROUND ON HIS OWN AND FLEW OVER THE DH8A WITH THE CLOSEST PROXIMITY OF 200 FEET VERTICAL. AMASS ANALYSIS SHOWS THAT THE DH8A WAS APPROXIMATELY 104 FEET FROM RUNWAY CENTERLINE AS THE CRJ2 PAST ROMEO IN A CLIMB. RUNWAY WIDTH IS 150 FEET AND CRJ2 WINGSPAN OF 70 FEET.

• 2006-02-23 · Cleveland Hopkins International Airport · GLF4 · RWY 24L · Category A

  AN AIRPORT FIRE VEHICLE HAD PRE-COORDINATED A SIMULATED ALERT 3 EMERGENCY RESPONSE AT THE INTERSECTION OF RUNWAY 6R AND TAXIWAY NOVEMBER. THE COMMAND VEHICLE WAS TO BE ESCORTING TOW OTHER FIRE VEHICLES WHEN THE SIMULATION BEGAN. AT THE PRE-COORDINATED TIME THE COMMAND VEHICLE CONTACTED THE TOWER AND REQUESTED TO PROCEED TO RUNWAY 6R VIA TAXIWAY NOVEMBER. THE COMMAND VEHICLE WAS ISSUED PROCEED TO RUNWAY 6R AND HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 24L. THE CLEARANCE WAS READ BACK CORRECTLY, INCLUDING THE HOLD SHORT INSTRUCTIONS. THE OTHER TWO FIRE VEHICLES ENTERED RUNWAY 24L AT TAXIWAY KILO WITHOUT CLEARANCE AS A GULFSTREAM GLF4 WAS COMMITTED ON HIS TAKEOFF ROLL. THE GLF4 DEPARTED RUNWAY 24L FULL LENGTH AND ROTATED NORMALLY BY TAXIWAY L1 AND PASSED OVER THE VEHICLES AT APPROXIMATELY 50 FEET. DISTANCE FROM L1 TO KILO IS 1,300 FEET HORIZONTAL. AMASS WAS IN LIMITED MODE.