Fort Worth Meacham International Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2019-04-26 · Fort Worth Meacham International Airport · PA32 / PA28/A · FTW RWY 34 · Category B

  PILOT DEVIATION, RUNWAY INCURSION WITH CONFLICT. AIRCRAFT 1, PA32, DEPARTED FROM RUNWAY 34 WITHOUT A CLEARANCE AND OVERFLEW AIRCRAFT 2, P28A, WHICH WAS CLEARED TO CROSS RUNWAY 34. THE FACILITY REPORTED THAT AIRCRAFT 1 OVERFLEW AIRCRAFT 2 BY AN ESTIMATED 100 FEET. TRAINING WAS TAKEN PLACE AT THE LOCAL CONTROL (LC) POSITION. AIRCRAFT 1 WAS HOLDING SHORT OF RUNWAY 34 WHEN THE CONTROLLER INSTRUCTED THEM TO LUAW AND ADVISED THE PILOT THAT AIRCRAFT 2 WOULD BE CROSSING DOWNFIELD. THE CONTROLLER THEN INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 2 TO CROSS RUNWAY 34 AT TAXIWAY D WITH NO DELAY AND ADVISED THE PILOT THAT AIRCRAFT 1 WOULD BE HOLDING IN POSITION ON RUNWAY 34. THE FACILITY REPORTED THAT THE LC CONTROLLER AND THE OJTI OBSERVED AIRCRAFT 2 BEGIN THE CROSSING, THEN TURNED THEIR ATTENTION TO SCANNING AND SEQUENCING AIRCRAFT IN THE WEST TRAFFIC PATTERN. CONCURRENTLY, AIRCRAFT 1 HAD BEGUN TAKEOFF ROLL WITHOUT A DEPARTURE CLEARANCE. IT WAS REPORTED BY THE TIME THE LC CONTROLLER AND THE OJTI REALIZED THAT AIRCRAFT 1 HAD BEGUN TAKEOFF ROLL, THE AIRCRAFT HAD ALREADY ROTATED AND BECOME AIRBORNE. THE FACILITY REPORTED THAT AIRCRAFT 2 WAS APPROXIMATELY HALFWAY ACROSS RUNWAY 34 WHEN AIRCRAFT 1 OVERFLEW THE AIRCRAFT BY APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET. CLOSEST PROXIMITY WAS ZERO FEET LATERAL AND 100 FEET VERTICAL.

• 2009-01-30 · Fort Worth Meacham International Airport · C421 / AA5 · RWY 27 · Category B

  GROUND CONTROL (GC) ISSUED A CESSNA C421 TAXI CLEARANCE TO RUNWAY 34 WITH HOLD SHORT INSTRUCTIONS FOR RUNWAY 27 AT TAXIWAY ALPHA AND TOLD TO FOLLOW A KING AIR THAT WAS NOT YET VISIBLE. THE C421 PILOT READ BACK THE TAXI INSTRUCTIONS BUT DID NOT ACKNOWLEDGE FOLLOWING THE KING AIR. GC INSTRUCTED THE C421 TO FOLLOW THE KING AIR WHICH WAS READ BACK. GC DID NOT REPEAT THE HOLD SHORT INSTRUCTIONS. AS THE KING AIR WAS APPROACHING RUNWAY 27, GC TOLD THE KING AIR TO CROSS THE RUNWAY. AFTER THE KING AIR CROSSED LOCAL CONTROL (LC) CLEARED A GRUMMAN AA5 FOR TAKEOFF RUNWAY 27 FULL LENGTH. GC OBSERVED THE C421 APPROACHING 27 AT ALPHA AND ATTEMPTED TO STOP THE C421 BUT USED WRONG CALL SIGN AND AS THE C421 WAS APPROACHING THE RUNWAY THE AA5 WAS LESS THAN 600 FEET FROM THE INTERSECTION AND ROTATING AT KILO. LC ADVISED THE AA5 OF THE CROSSING C421. AA5 PILOT LATER STATED OBSERVING C421 APPROACHING FROM THE RIGHT (ALPHA) AND IT DID NOT APPEAR THAT THE C421 WAS GOING TO STOP. PILOT DECIDED SAFEST COURSE WAS TO LIFT OFF EARLY AND USE BEST CLIMB RATE TO AVOID C421. PILOT STATED THAT HE COULD NOT SEE THE C421 OUT THE RIGHT SIDE AS HE FLEW OVER THE INTERSECTION AND ESTIMATES HIS ALTITUDE WAS 200-300 FEET VERTICAL CROSSING ALPHA. NEITHER PILOT NOR ATCT COULD CONFIRM IF THERE WAS A FLYOVER. CLOSEST HORIZONTAL PROXIMITY WAS 550 FEET, DISTANCE FROM KILO TO ALPHA. (PD ALSO FILED)