LaGuardia Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2026-03-22 · LaGuardia Airport · CRJ9 / CRJ9 · RUNWAY 04 AND TAXIWAY D · Category A

  ATC DID NOT PROVIDE RUNWAY SEPARATION BETWEEN VEHICLE AND AIRCRAFT 2. VEHICLE REQUESTED TO CROSS RWY 4 AT TWY D EASTBOUND, RESPONDING TO AN ALERT AIRCRAFT. LC INSTRUCTED VEHICLE TO CROSS RWY 4 AT TWY D. AIRCRAFT 2/CRJ9 WAS CLEARED TO LAND RWY 4 AND WAS APPROXIMATELY 900 FEET FROM THE LANDING THRESHOLD. LC REALIZED THE CONFLICT AND INSTRUCTED VEHICLE TO STOP AS AIRCRAFT 2 WAS ABEAM TWY Y ON LANDING ROLLOUT, BUT NO RESPONSE WAS RECEIVED. LC AGAIN INSTRUCTED VEHICLE TO STOP AS AIRCRAFT 2 WAS NOW ABEAM TWY C, BUT NO RESPONSE RECEIVED. VEHICLE AND AIRCRAFT 2 COLLIDED AT TWY D.

• 2016-05-03 · LaGuardia Airport · B737 / B737 · RWY 13 · Category B

  A/C 1,B737 WAS AWAITING DEPARTURE ON RUNWAY 13 AS A/C 2, B737 WAS ON ARRIVAL TO THE INTERSECTING RUNWAY, RUNWAY 4. A/C 1 WAS ISSUED TAKEOFF CLEARANCE AND BEGAN DEPARTURE ROLL ON RUNWAY 13 BEFORE A/C 2 ACKNOWLEDGED INSTRUCTIONS TO HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 13. CLOSEST PROXIMITY BETWEEN THE AIRCRAFT INVOLVED WAS 275 FEET.

• 2011-11-16 · LaGuardia Airport · F900 / DH8A · RWY 4 · Category A

  A FALCON F900 WAS ISSUED TAXI INSTRUCTIONS VIA TAXIWAY FOXTROT, ALPHA-ALPHA, HOLD SHORT OF ECHO ON ALPHA-ALPHA. PILOT READ BACK WAS CORRECT. ONE MINUTE LATER GROUND SEQUENCE (GC-SEQ) INSTRUCTED THE F900 TO CONTINUE VIA ALPHA-ALPHA, ECHO, DELTA-DELTA, WHICH PILOT READ BACK. THE F900 FAILED TO MAKE THE LEFT TURN ONTO ALPHA-ALPHA AND CROSSED THE HOLD SHORT LINE ON DELTA FOR RUNWAY 4 THUS CONFLICTING WITH A DEHAVILLAND DH8A TOUCHING DOWN ON RUNWAY 4. GC-SEQ IMMEDIATELY INSTRUCTED THE F900 TO HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 4 AND PILOT RESPONDED HOLDING SHORT. THE F900 STOPPED JUST PRIOR TO RUNWAY EDGE AS THE DH8A PASSED THE F900’S POSITION ON DELTA. WING SPAN OF DH8A IS 85 FEET WITH RUNWAY WIDTH OF 150 FEET, THE CLOSEST HORIZONTAL PROXIMITY BETWEEN AIRCRAFT IS ESTIMATED AT BETWEEN 35-50 FEET. THIS EVENT MET THE PARAMETERS ESTABLISHED WITHIN ASDE-X TO CAUSE AN ALARM AND AN ALERT WAS RECEIVED. AIRPORT OPERATIONS INDICATE ELEVATED RUNWAY GUARD LIGHTS (ERGL) AND RUNWAY 4-22 MANDATORY SIGNS AT DELTA IN SERVICE AT THE TIME OF EVENT. MOST OF THE IN- PAVEMENT RGL'S ON WEST SIDE OF RUNWAY 4-22 ARE NOTAMED OUT OF SERVICE DUE TO CONSTRUCTION. ADDITIONALLY, THE AREA HAS ENHANCED TAXIWAY CENTERLINE MARKINGS AND SURFACE PAINTED HOLDING POSITION SIGNS.