Westchester County Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2022-05-26 · Westchester County Airport · SR22 / CL60 · 16 · Category B

  AIRCRAFT 1 ENTERED RUNWAY 16 WITHOUT ATC AUTHORIZATION. THE LOCAL CONTROLLER CLEARED AIRCRAFT 1/SR20 TO LAND RUNWAY 11 WITH AN INSTRUCTION TO HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 16 (LAHSO). THE PILOT READ BACK WAS CORRECT. LC THEN CLEARED AIRCRAFT 2/CL60 TO LAND RUNWAY 16 WITHOUT LAHSO. BOTH AIRCRAFT WERE ISSUED AND ACKNOWLEDGED THE OPPOSING TRAFFIC. AIRCRAFT 1 LANDED RUNWAY 11, DID NOT HOLD SHORT AS INSTRUCTED, AND ENTERED THE INTERSECTION OF RUNWAY 16. AIRCRAFT 2 WAS ON LANDING ROLLOUT AS LC ADVISED AIRCRAFT 1 TO EXIT THE INTERSECTION WITHOUT DELAY. THE PILOT OF AIRCRAFT 2 MADE A COMMENT THAT SAID, "I'M GLAD THE BRAKES WORK ON THIS THING." THE FACILITY ESTIMATES THE CLOSEST PROXIMITY WAS BETWEEN 500-750 FEET WHEN AIRCRAFT 1 CLEARED RUNWAY 16.

• 2011-12-04 · Westchester County Airport · B407 (HELO) / GLF4 · RWY 16 · Category A

  A BELL B407 (HELICOPTER) WAS INSTRUCTED TO TAXI UP TO AND HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 16. PILOT READ BACK THE HOLD SHORT. A GULFSTREAM GLF4 LANDED AND WAS ON ROLL OUT RUNWAY 16 WHEN THE B407 CONTINUED AIR TAXI ACROSS RUNWAY 16 ON TAXIWAY FOXTROT WITHOUT A CLEARANCE. THERE WAS NO FLYOVER AND THE GLF4 DID NOT TAKE ANY EVASIVE ACTIONS. CLOSEST PROXIMITY REPORTED WAS 75 FEET VERTICAL AND 100 FEET LATERAL. DISTANCE FROM APPROACH END 16 TO FOXTROT IS 3,000 FEET.

• 2003-10-10 · Westchester County Airport · CL60 / B350 · RWY 29 · Category B