Chicago Midway International Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2025-02-25 · Chicago Midway International Airport · CL35 / B738 · RWY 31C · Category B

  AIRCRAFT 1 CROSSED RUNWAY 31C WITHOUT ATC AUTHORIZATION. GC ISSUED INSTRUCTIONS TO AIRCRAFT 1/CL35 FROM TAXIWAY F TO TURN LEFT ON RUNWAY 4L, CROSS RUNWAY 31L, HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 31C. PILOT READ BACK LEFT ON RUNWAY 4L, CROSS 22, UH, 13C. GC REPEATED THE INSTRUCTION, AND THE PILOT READ BACK HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 31C. THE RUNWAY 31C HOLD SHORT POINT IS MARKED BY SIGNAGE ON RUNWAY 4L. AIRCRAFT 2/B738 WAS ON FINAL RUNWAY 31C CLEARED TO LAND. AIRCRAFT 1 WAS TAXIING TOWARD RUNWAY 31C AS AIRCRAFT 2 REACHED THE RUNWAY 31C THRESHOLD. AIRCRAFT 1 CROSSED RUNWAY 31C AT RUNWAY 4L WITHOUT ATC AUTHORIZATION. AIRCRAFT 2 ANNOUNCED PILOT INITIATED GO AROUND PRIOR TO TAXIWAY Y. AIRCRAFT 1 CLEARED THE RUNWAY 31C EDGE LINE AS AIRCRAFT 2 CROSSED RUNWAY 4R. CLOSEST PROXIMITY 181 FEET LATERAL AND 183 FEET VERTICAL.

• 2024-12-09 · Chicago Midway International Airport · B38M · MDW RWY31C · Category A

  ATC DID NOT PROVIDE RUNWAY SEPARATION BETWEEN AIRCRAFT 1 AND VEHICLE. VEHICLE/ AIRPORT VEHICLE WAS PARKED ON THE WEST SHOULDER OF RUNWAY 31C OUTSIDE THE RUNWAY EDGE LINE ABEAM THE PAPI ARRAY. THE TECHNICIANS WERE OUTSIDE THE VEHICLE PERFORMING WORK ON THE PAPIS. THE PRESENCE OF THE VEHICLE AND PERSONNEL IN THE RUNWAY 31C RSA HAD BEEN COVERED IN THE GC PRB PRECEDING THE EVENT. GC ISSUED TAXI INSTRUCTIONS TO AIRCRAFT 1/B38M FOR RUNWAY 31C, TAXI VIA TAXIWAY T AND TAXIWAY E3. DURING THE PREVIOUS LC PRB, THE VEHICLES WERE MENTIONED BUT NOT THEIR PRESENCE IN THE RUNWAY 31C RSA. LC ISSUED LUAW AND THEN TAKEOFF CLEARANCE RUNWAY 31C TO AIRCRAFT 1 AND THE AIRCRAFT DEPARTED. ESTIMATED CLOSEST PROXIMITY BETWEEN AIRCRAFT 1 AND THE VEHICLE PARKED ON THE SHOULDER 30-40 FEET BASED ON B38M WINGSPAN.

• 2021-10-13 · Chicago Midway International Airport · BE10 / C560 · 13R · Category A

  ATC DID NOT PROTECT THE RUNWAY PROTECTION ZONE (RPZ) ON TAXIWAY W WHILE AIRCRAFT 1 WAS LANDING ON RUNWAY 13R. AIRCRAFT 1/BE10 WAS ON FINAL FOR RUNWAY 13C. ON APPROXIMATELY A 5 MILE FINAL LC INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 1 TO CHANGE TO RUNWAY 13R AND CLEARED THE AIRCRAFT TO LAND. GC PREVIOUSLY INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 2/C560 TO FOLLOW AN UNINVOLVED CL30 HOLDING SHORT OF RUNWAY 13C ON TAXIWAY W. A POSITION RELIEF BRIEFING WAS CONDUCTED TO COMBINE GC WITH CD WHERE THE GROUND CONTROLLER REFERENCED APPROVED COORDINATION TO CROSS THE RUNWAY 13R APPROACH HOLD. AIRCRAFT 1 OVERFLEW AIRCRAFT 2 INSIDE THE RPZ. CLOSEST PROXIMITY WAS 35 FEET VERTICAL AND 56 FEET LATERAL.

• 2020-08-06 · Chicago Midway International Airport · C172 / B737 · RWY 4R · Category B

  AIRCRAFT 1 DEPARTED RUNWAY 4L AND OVERFLEW RUNWAY 4R AS AIRCRAFT 2 WAS LANDING ROLLOUT. LC ISSUED AIRCRAFT 1 CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF, TURN RIGHT ON COURSE, AND THE PILOT RESPONDED, WE'LL MAKE IT QUICK. AIRCRAFT 1 COMMENCED A RIGHT TURN ACROSS RUNWAY 4R AFTER BECOMING AIRBORNE, AIRCRAFT 1 OVERFLEW RUNWAY 4R AT OR BELOW 200 FEET. THE EVENT OCCURRED WHEN AIRCRAFT 2 WAS ROLLING OUT, CROSSING RUNWAY 13R AND AIRCRAFT 1 WAS AIRBORNE AND OVER RUNWAY 13C, TURNING SOUTHEAST, ACROSS RUNWAY 4R. CLOSEST PROXIMITY IS UNKNOWN BECAUSE AIRCRAFT 1 DROPPED OFF THE ASDE WHILE PASSING OVER RUNWAY 4R.

• 2007-06-10 · Chicago Midway International Airport · DV40 / PA46 · RWY 22R · Category A

  A DIAMOND DV40 WAS TAXIED INTO POSITION AND HOLD (TIPH) ON RUNWAY 22R ABEAM TAXIWAY PAPA AND ISSUED TRAFFIC LANDING ON PARALLEL RUNWAY 22L. A PIPER PA46 WAS ON A CIRCLING APPROACH TO RUNWAY 22L. THE PA46 WAS THEN CHANGED TO AND CLEARED TO LAND RUNWAY 22R IN ORDER TO GET A B737 DEPARTURE OFF. LOCAL CONTROL FORGOT ABOUT THE DV40 TIPH ON RUNWAY 22R (THE DV40 WAS TIPH FOR LESS THAN 2 MINUTES). THE PA46 LANDED OVER THE DV40. CLOSEST PROXIMITY ESTIMATED AT 50 FEET VERTICAL. TOUCHDOWN POINT IS UNKNOWN. THERE IS A DISPLACED THRESHOLD 880 FEET DOWN RUNWAY 22R. TAXIWAY PAPA IS APPROXIMATELY 192 FEET BACK FROM THE DISPLACED THRESHOLD. ATCT CONTROLLERS IN THE TOWER AT THE TIME DID NOT SEE THE FLY OVER. TOWER HAS CLEAR LINE OF SIGHT TO APPROACH END RUNWAY 22R/L.

• 2005-01-17 · Chicago Midway International Airport · H25C / MD80 · RWY 22L/31C · Category B

  A HAWKER H25C LANDED RUNWAY 31C AND TURNED LEFT ONTO TAXIWAY ALPHA. ATCT INSTRUCTED THE H25C PILOT TO TAXI TO ATLANTIC AVIATION AND HOLD SHORT RUNWAY 22L. THE H25C WAS SOUTHEAST ON TAXIWAY FOXTROT WHEN ATCT INSTRUCTED THE H25C TO CROSS RUNWAY 4R. ATCT REALIZED A MCDONNELL-DOUGLAS MD80 HAD BEEN CLEARED FOR DEPARTURE ON RUNWAY 22L SO HE ISSUED HOLD SHORT INSTRUCTIONS TO ANOTHER AIRCRAFT FOR RUNWAY 4R/22L INTENDING TO ISSUE THE HOLD SHORT INSTRUCTIONS TO THE H25C. THE H25C CROSSED RUNWAY 22L VIA FOXTROT AND IN FRONT OF THE MD80 WHO WAS ROTATING AT THE INTERSECTION OF RUNWAY 31R AND 22L. CLOSEST HORIZONTAL SEPARATION REPORTED AS 1,078 FEET. THE H25C PILOT DISPUTED THE 1,078 FEET BECAUSE HE STATED "AS SOON AS HIS TAIL CLEARED THE RUNWAY, HE HEARD THE MD80 PASS OVERHEAD".