North Perry Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2012-02-29 · North Perry Airport · C172 / C172 · RWY 18L · Category B

  C172 WAS CLEARED FROM ATA RAMP ON SOUTH SIDE TO RUNWAY 18L VIA TAXIWAY LIMA, ECHO, HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 36R. READ BACK WAS CORRECT. C172 CROSSED RUNWAY 36R ON TAXIWAY LIMA WITHOUT A CLEARANCE WHILE C172 WAS DEPARTING FROM RWY 18L. THE DEPARTING AIRCRAFT PASSED OVER C172 AT APPROXIMATELY 150 FEET. THIS AREA IS IDENTIFIED AS A “HOT SPOT.”

• 2009-04-08 · North Perry Airport · C182 · RWY 27R · Category A

  AN AIRPORT OPS VEHICLE REQUESTED PERMISSION TO ESCORT ANOTHER VEHICLE FROM THE SOUTH SIDE TO THE NORTH SIDE OF THE AIRFIELD. GROUND CONTROL (GC) INSTRUCTED THE VEHICLE TO PROCEED VIA TAXIWAYS LIMA AND DELTA, HOLD SHORT RUNWAY 27L. THE VEHICLE DRIVER READ BACK THE INSTRUCTIONS AND HELD SHORT OF 27L AT DELTA. GC THEN INSTRUCTED THE VEHICLE TO PROCEED ACROSS 27L BUT DID NOT ISSUE AN INSTRUCTION TO HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 27R. THE VEHICLES CROSSED RUNWAY 27R AT DELTA IN FRONT OF A CESSNA C182 ON DEPARTURE ROLL 27R FULL LENGTH. CLOSEST PROXIMITY REPORTED WAS ESTIMATED AS 60 FEET VERTICAL AS THE C182 OVER FLEW THE SECOND VEHICLE WHO WAS PAST THE CENTERLINE EXITING ON THE OTHER SIDE. HORIZONTAL DISTANCE FROM APPROACH END 27R TO DELTA IS APPROXIMATELY 1,675 FEET.

• 2009-01-28 · North Perry Airport · C172 / C172 · RWY 9L · Category A

  GROUND CONTROL (GC) INSTRUCTED A C172 TO TAXI FROM MILLER RAMP ON NORTH SIDE OF AIRPORT TO RUNWAY 18L VIA TAXIWAY DELTA. C172 PILOT READ BACK THE INSTRUCTIONS CORRECTLY. C172 EXITED THE RAMP AREA AND TURNED RIGHT INSTEAD OF LEFT ONTO DELTA AND ENTERED RUNWAY 9L AT DELTA SOUTHBOUND AS A CESSNA C172 WAS ON TAKE-OFF ROLL FULL LENGTH SAME RUNWAY. LOCAL CONTROL (LC) OBSERVED THE DEPARTING C172 SLOWING APPROXIMATELY 700 FEET FROM DELTA (MIDPOINT TAXIWAY B AND P1) AND ASKED INTENTIONS. DEPARTING C172 PILOT REPLIED THEY WERE ABORTING TAKE OFF DUE TO AN AIRCRAFT ON THE RUNWAY. LCS VISION OF DELTA IS BLOCKED BY A WINDOW BAR AND DID NOT SEE THE TAXIING C172 ENTER THE RUNWAY. LC THEN OBSERVED THE ABORTING C172, STILL TRAVELING FASTER THAN TAXI SPEED, MANEUVERING BEHIND THE TAXIING C172. CLOSEST PROXIMITY REPORTED WAS 30 FEET LATERAL, DISTANCE FROM THE WING TIP OF THE ABORTING C172 TO THE TAIL OF THE CROSSING C172 AS IT EXITED 9L ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF DELTA. DISTANCE FROM 9L APPROACH END TO DELTA IS 1,200 FEET. THE DEPARTING C172 LATER MADE A STATEMENT THAT AS THEY WERE ON TAKEOFF ROLL RUNWAY 9L, PILOT SAW THE CROSSING C172 ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE RUNWAY, CLOSE TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE 9L/18L INTERSECTION. AT THE POINT HE MADE THE DECISION TO ABORT THE TAKEOFF, HE WAS JUST SHY OF A ROTATION SPEED OF 60 MPH AND APPROACHING DELTA. PILOT ESTIMATES THE DISTANCE FROM HIS "POINT OF DECISION" TO THE CROSSING C172 TO BE ABOUT 250 FEET. THE ABORTING C172 BEGAN TO SLOW WHILE MANEUVERING TO THE RIGHT OF CENTERLINE. THE CLOSEST POINT WHILE GOING PAST THE CROSSING C172 WAS ESTIMATED AS 40 FEET BETWEEN THE TWO AIRCRAFT AND HIS SPEED HAD SLOWED TO ABOUT 30 MPH. AFTER PASSING THE CROSSING C172, THE PILOT STATED HE MANEUVERED BACK ON CENTERLINE AND HAD SLOWED TO TAXI SPEED BY THE TIME HE REACHED ECHO. PILOT WAS ASKED TO DESCRIBE HOW ABRUPT HIS MANEUVERING FROM CENTERLINE WAS AND HE REPLIED THAT IT WAS SMOOTH AND COMPLETELY UNDER CONTROL.