Fresno Yosemite International Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2025-03-12 · Fresno Yosemite International Airport · LJ75 / PC12 · RWY 29R · Category B

  AIRCRAFT 1 ENTERED RUNWAY 29R WITHOUT ATC AUTHORIZATION. GC ISSUED AIRCRAFT 1/LJ75 RUNWAY 29L TAXI VIA TAXIWAY B11, B. PILOT READ BACK WAS CORRECT. AIRCRAFT 1 TAXIED TO RUNWAY 29R. LC CLEARED AIRCRAFT 1 FOR TAKEOFF RUNWAY 29L. PILOT READ BACK WAS CORRECT. AIRCRAFT 1 ENTERED RUNWAY 29R AT TAXIWAY B WITHOUT ATC AUTHORIZATION. AIRCRAFT 2/PC12 WAS ON FINAL RUNWAY 29R AND INITIATED A GO AROUND OVER THE RUNWAY UNDERRUN DUE TO TRAFFIC ON THE RUNWAY. AIRCRAFT 2 DIRECTLY OVERFLEW AIRCRAFT 1 BY LESS THAN 200 FEET. LC INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 1 TO CANCEL TAKEOFF CLEARANCE.

• 2020-09-15 · Fresno Yosemite International Airport · AS50 / 2/F15 · 29R · Category A

  AIRCRAFT 1 ENTERED THE RUNWAY 29R RSA AFTER ATC CLEARED THEM ON COURSE. AIRCRAFT 1/AS50 WAS INBOUND FROM THE NE AND REQUESTED SVFR TO THE RAMP. LOCAL CONTROL (LC) ISSUED AIRCRAFT 1 A SQUAWK CODE AND ADVISED THE AIRCRAFT TO MAINTAIN VFR, 'MAKE APPROACH DIRECT INBOUND', AND REPORT IF UNABLE. SHORTLY AFTER, A POSITION RELIEF BRIEFING TOOK PLACE ON THE LC POSITION. WITH AIRCRAFT 1 1.6 MILES NE OF THE AIRPORT, AIRCRAFT 2/2/F15'S WAS INSTRUCTED TO CHANGE TO DEPARTURE AND CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF ON RUNWAY 29R. THE LC THEN VERIFIED THAT AIRCRAFT 1 WAS STILL VFR. AIRCRAFT 1 ANSWERED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND REPORTED THE FIELD WAS IN SIGHT. THE LC REITERATED FOR AIRCRAFT 1 TO MAINTAIN VFR AND THAT LANDING WILL BE AT OWN RISK ON THE NON-MOVEMENT AREA. AS AIRCRAFT 1 CROSSED THE DEPARTURE END OF RUNWAY 29R AT 600FT (270 FEET ABOVE THE DEPARTURE END OF THE RUNWAY), AIRCRAFT 2 WAS AIRBORNE AND OVERFLEW AIRCRAFT 1 AT 1,100FT. NO TRAFFIC ADVISORIES WERE EXCHANGED BETWEEN THE TWO FLIGHTS. EVASIVE ACTION WAS REPORTED TAKEN BY AIRCRAFT 2. QA ESTIMATES CLOSEST PROXIMITY AT 300FT DURING THE TIME OF OVERFLIGHT.

• 2014-12-22 · Fresno Yosemite International Airport · C525 · RWY 29R · Category A

  AIPORT TRUCK PHONED THE TOWER TO ADVISE THEY WOULD BE REQUESTING TO PAINT ON RUNWAY 29R. TRUCK THEN CALLED LOCAL CONTROL (LC) REQUESTING ACCESS TO RUNWAY 29R AT TAXIWAY BRAVO 2. LC ADVISED TRUCK TO PROCEED ON TAXIWAY BRAVO 2 AND RUNWAY 29R. FIVE MINUTES LATER, C525 CALLED INBOUND ON THE ILS 29R AND WAS CLEARED TO LAND. FIVE MINUTES AFTER RECEIVING LANDING CLEARANCE, C525 OVERFLEW TRUCK WHILE LANDING RUNWAY 29R. LOSS OF SEPARATION, CLOSEST PROXIMITY WAS 50 FEET VERTICAL.

• 2008-08-28 · Fresno Yosemite International Airport · PA46 / CRJ2 · RWY 29R · Category A

  A PIPER PA46 LANDED RUNWAY 29R AND WAS INSTRUCTED TO TURN OFF AT TAXIWAY B3. THE PA46 PILOT REPORTED HE COULD NOT MAKE THAT TAXIWAY AND WAS INSTRUCTED TO TURN OFF AT B5. B5 IS NOT LIT BUT HAS REFLECTORS AND IS 4,417 FEET FROM THE APPROACH END. LOCAL CONTROL (LC) THEN CLEARED A CANADAIR CRJ2 TO LAND ON RUNWAY 29R. THE CRJ2 PILOT ADVISED THE TOWER ON LANDING ROLL THAT SOMEONE WAS STILL ON THE RUNWAY. LC ASKED THE PA46 TO VERIFY HE WAS ON B5 AND THE PILOT SAID HE WAS HAVING TROUBLE FINDING THE TAXIWAY. THE CRJ2 PILOT LATER STATED THAT THEY OBSERVED THE PA46 AFTER TOUCHDOWN DURING THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE REVERSERS. THE CRJ2 USED MAX BREAKING AND AS THE PA46 WAS WELL TO THE LEFT SIDE OF THE RUNWAY, THEY VEERED TO THE RIGHT TO AVOID CONTACT WITH THE WINGS AND ESTIMATE THE TWO AIRCRAFT MISSED BY 15 FEET WING TIP TO WING TIP. CLOSEST PROXIMITY REPORTED AS 15 FEET. APPROXIMATELY POSITION OF THE PA46 WAS NEAR B4.

• 2006-10-18 · Fresno Yosemite International Airport · C150 · RWY 29R · Category B

  A CESSNA C150 WAS CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF ON RUNWAY 29R ABEAM TAXIWAYT B2 WITH A SWEEPER ON THE RUNWAY BETWEEN B9 AND B10. THE C150 OVER FLEW THE SWEEPER DURING CLIMB OUT BY AN ESTIMATED 250 FEET VERTICAL. LC DID NOT SEE WHERE THE C150 ROTATED. PILOT STATED IN FOLLOW-UP PHONE CONVERSATION THAT HE ROTATED NEAR B6. DISTANCE FROM B6 TO B9 IS APPROXIMATELY 1,500 FEET. B2 TO B9 IS 3500 FEET. MEMORY AID WAS IN PLACE OVER THE LC WIND INDICATOR TO SHOW THE RUNWAY WAS OCCUPIED BUT LC LOOKED AT THE WIND INDICATOR AT GC INSTEAD AND FORGOT THE SWEEPER WHO HAD BEEN ON THE RUNWAY FOR 19 MINUTES.