Portland Hillsboro Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2022-03-20 · Portland Hillsboro Airport · HDJT / C152 · RY13R · Category B

  ATC DID NOT PROVIDE RUNWAY SEPARATION ON RUNWAY 13R BETWEEN AIRCRAFT 1 AND AIRCRAFT 2. WHILE ON A RIGHT DOWNWIND, LOCAL CONTROL CLEARED AIRCRAFT 2/C152 TO LAND RUNWAY 13R. WHEN AIRCRAFT 2 WAS ON A 1/2 MILE FINAL, AIRCRAFT 1/HJDT CONTACTED LOCAL CONTROL FOR DEPARTURE, HOLDING SHORT OF RUNWAY 13R AT TAXIWAY A1. THE LOCAL CONTROLLER INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 1 TO LUAW RUNWAY 13R. AS AIRCRAFT 1 APPROACHED THE RUNWAY EDGE LINE, THE PILOT INQUIRED ABOUT THE LINE UP AND WAIT CLEARANCE, ADVISING LOCAL CONTROL THEIR NOSE WAS ON THE RUNWAY 13R EDGE LINE WHEN AIRCRAFT 2 LANDED. QA ESTIMATES THE CLOSEST PROXIMITY WAS 60 FEET LATERAL AND A OVERFLY DID NOT OCCUR.

• 2004-09-23 · Portland Hillsboro Airport · C172 · RWY 30 · Category B

  A FUEL TRUCK CALLED GROUND CONTROL (GC) FOR REPOSITIONING. GC MISUNDERSTOOD THE VEHICLES LOCATION AND ISSUED INSTRUCTIONS TO HOLD SHORT RUNWAY 30 VIA TAXIWAY A-6. GC OBSERVED ANOTHER FUEL TRUCK ON THE RAMP IN APPARENT RESPONSE TO HIS INSTRUCTIONS. THE FUEL TRUCK THAT CALLED FOR THE REPOSITIONING INSTRUCTIONS PROCEEDED ONTO TAXIWAY A, CROSSED RUNWAY 2, IN FRONT OF N52371, CESSNA C172, ON DEPARTURE ROLL, THEN HELD SHORT RUNWAY 30 VIA TAXIWAY A-6. N52371 ROTATED 800 FEET IN FRONT OF THE FUEL TRUCK.