Washington Dulles International Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2019-01-29 · Washington Dulles International Airport · UNK / GLF4 · RWY 30 · Category A

  V/PD RI CONFLICT: RWY 30 WAS CLOSED FOR SNOW REMOVAL OPERATIONS. AT THE COMPLETION OF SNOW REMOVAL, AIRPORT OPERATIONS OPENED RWY 30 AND ATC RESUMED OPERATIONS. AIRCRAFT 1 WAS CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF ON RWY 30. VEHICLE (SNOW EQUIPMENT), ENTERED RWY 30 EAST OF TWY Q4 AND PROCEEDED NORTHWEST BOUND. VEHICLE REVERSED COURSE AT TWY Q3 AND PROCEEDED SOUTHEAST BOUND ON RWY 30 TOWARD AIRCRAFT 1. ATC DID NOT VISUALLY OBSERVE THE VEHICLE DUE TO POOR VISIBILITY. SURFACE RADAR ALERTED ATC OF THE CONFLICT. AIRCRAFT 1 REPORTED A TRUCK ON THE RUNWAY AND THEY WERE UNABLE TO SAFELY ABORT THE TAKEOFF. AIRCRAFT 1 STATED THEY OBSERVED VEHICLE TURN OFF THE RUNWAY AHEAD OF THEIR POSITION. CLOSET PROXIMITY BETWEEN AIRCRAFT 1 AND VEHICLE CAPTURED ON FALCON WAS APPROXIMATELY 93 FEET. LOSS OF SEPARATION VALIDATED.

• 2013-03-05 · Washington Dulles International Airport · LJ35 / ASTR · RWY 1C/30 · Category B

  LJ35 WAS ISSUED TAKEOFF CLEARANCE RUNWAY 30 AND WAS INFORMED OF TRAFFIC ON A 3 MILE FINAL TO RUNWAY 1C. FIFTY-TWO SECONDS AFTER READING BACK THE TAKEOFF CLEARANCE ASTR, ON FINAL FOR RUNWAY 1C, PASSED OVER THE DEPARTING LJ35 THAT HAD JUST BEGUN THE DEPARTURE ROLL. VERTICAL SEPARATION ESTIMATED 100 FEET.

• 2008-09-20 · Washington Dulles International Airport · E145 / E145 · RWY 30/1C · Category B

  LOCAL CONTROL WEST (LCW) CLEARED AN EMBRAER E145 FOR TAKEOFF ON RUNWAY 30 FULL LENGTH. AN EMBRAER E145 WAS CLEARED TO LAND RUNWAY 1C. THE RUNWAY 30 E145 APPEARED TO DELAY TAKEOFF ROLL AND WHEN HE STARTED HIS ROLL THE LANDING E145 CROSSED RUNWAY 30 OVER THE DEPARTING E145. CLOSEST PROXIMITY REPORTED BY ATCT WAS 300 FEET VERTICAL. ASDE-X ANALYSIS REPORTED THE ALTITUDE AS APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET AGL. (ASDE-X ALTITUDE ERROR IS REPORTED TO BE PLUS OR MINUS 100 FEET.) THE COMPUTED 3-DEGREE GLIDESLOPE ALTITUDE IS 134 FEET. E145 TAIL HEIGHT IS 22 FEET 2 INCHES.