Memphis International Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2023-08-02 · Memphis International Airport · B777 / B752 · RWY 27 · Category B

  ATC DID NOT ENSURE CRDA SEPARATION BETWEEN AIRCRAFT 2 AND AIRCRAFT 1. AIRCRAFT 1/H/B777 WAS INBOUND TO LAND RUNWAY 18L. AIRCRAFT 2/B757 WAS INBOUND TO LAND RUNWAY 27. BOTH AIRCRAFT WERE INFORMED OF EACH OTHER. AIRCRAFT 1/H WAS SENT AROUND ON SHORT FINAL DUE TO SPACING OF TRAFFIC ON THE CROSSING RUNWAY. NO CUT-OFF POINT EXISTS FOR ATC TO INITIATE A GO-AROUND WHEN THE CRDA OPERATIONS ARE IN USE. AIRCRAFT 1/H OVERFLEW AIRCRAFT 2 ON RUNWAY 27. CLOSEST ESTIMATED PROXIMITY WAS APPROXIMATELY 141 FEET LATERAL AND 200 FEET VERTICAL.

• 2020-09-03 · Memphis International Airport · B752 / A306 · 18C · Category B

  (EVENT 2 OF 2) AIR TRAFFIC AUTHORIZED AIRCRAFT 2 ENTRY INTO THE RUNWAY 18C RSA WHILE AIRCRAFT 1 WAS LANDING ON RUNWAY 18C. AFTER LANDING ON RUNWAY 18R, AIRCRAFT 2 (A306) WAS TAXIED VIA MIKE, NOVEMBER, ALPHA, HOLD SHORT OF CHARLIE. HOLDING SHORT OF CHARLIE KEEPS AIRCRAFT CLEAR OF THE RUNWAY 18C RSA. GC THEN INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 2 TO CONTINUE TAXI VIA ALPHA, YANKEE, CROSS RWY27 TO THE RAMP WHEN AIRCRAFT 1 WAS ON A 2.5 MILE FINAL TO RUNWAY 18C. ASDE-X ANALYSIS SHOWS AIRCRAFT 1 OVERFLEW AIRCRAFT 2 BY 165 FEET AND ADVISED GOING AROUND BECAUSE THEY WERE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH TRAFFIC TAXIING IN FRONT OF THEM.

• 2020-09-03 · Memphis International Airport · B752 / B763 · 18C · Category B

  (EVENT 1 OF 2) AIR TRAFFIC AUTHORIZED AIRCRAFT 2 ENTRY INTO THE RUNWAY 18C RSA WHILE AIRCRAFT 1 WAS LANDING RUNWAY 18C. AFTER LANDING ON RUNWAY 18R, AIRCRAFT 2 (B763) WAS TAXIED VIA MIKE, NOVEMBER, ALPHA, HOLD SHORT OF CHARLIE. HOLDING SHORT OF CHARLIE KEEPS AIRCRAFT CLEAR OF THE RUNWAY 18C RSA. GC THEN INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 2 TO CONTINUE TAXI VIA ALPHA, YANKEE, CROSS RWY27 TO THE RAMP WHEN AIRCRAFT 1 WAS ON A 2.5 MILE FINAL TO RUNWAY 18C. ASDE-X ANALYSIS SHOWS AIRCRAFT 1 OVERFLEW AIRCRAFT 2 BY 165 FEET AND ADVISED GOING AROUND BECAUSE THEY WERE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH TRAFFIC TAXIING IN FRONT OF THEM.

• 2015-01-17 · Memphis International Airport · PA46 · RWY 27 · Category A

  PA46 WAS ISSUED LANDING CLEARANCE TO RUNWAY 27. AIRPORT AUTHORITY HAD A NOTAM CLOSING OF RUNWAY 18R AT 0100Z. A LARGE GROUP OF VEHICLES WAS INSTRUCTED TO PROCEED TO RUNWAY 18R VIA TAXIWAYS ALPHA AND NOVEMBER. AN AIRPORT OPERATIONS VEHICLE PLUS ONE APPARENTLY ENTERED RUNWAY 27 AT THE APPROACH END BY MISTAKE TO POSITION CLOSED RUNWAY SIGNS. WHEN PA46 CROSSED THE LANDING THRESHOLD THE PILOT REPORTED HE WAS GOING AROUND. PA46 REPORTED A RUNWAY CLOSED SIGN ON THE EDGE OF THE RUNWAY. VEHICLES WERE NOT SHOWN ON THE TOWER ASDE-X DISPLAY AS THE TARGETS WERE SUPPRESSED DUE TO MULTIPATH REGIONS IN THE AREA. ASDE-X ANALYSIS SHOWED THE AIRPORT OPERATIONS VEHICLE PLUS 1 PROCEEDED ONTO RUNWAY 27 WITHOUT TOWER AUTHORIZATION AND DETERMINED THE PA46 OVERFLEW THE VEHICLES BY 40 FEET.