Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2015-10-13 · Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport · HXA (EXP) / C210 · 3 · Category B

  A/C 1/HXA CALLED READY FOR TAXI FROM THE HANGARS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE AIRPORT. GROUND CONTROL (GC) ISSUED INSTRUCTIONS FOR HXA TO TAXI TO RUNWAY 3 VIA TAXIWAY LIMA 3, TURN RIGHT ON TAXIWAY LIMA THEN VIA TAXIWAYS DELTA AND FOXTROT. READ BACK WAS CORRECT. HXA MADE A LEFT TURN ON TAXIWAY DELTA AND CROSSED RUNWAY 1 WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION. A/C 2/C210 WAS LANDING ROLL ON RUNWAY 1 AND ADVISED LOCAL CONTROL THAT AN AIRCRAFT HAD CROSSED RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. TOWER PERSONNEL THEN OBSERVED HXA HAD CROSSED THE RUNWAY. GC INSTRUCTED HXA TO HOLD POSITION. DUE TO THE SPEED OF C210, NO EVASIVE MANEUVER WAS PERFORMED. THE CLOSEST ESTIMATED PROXIMITY WAS APPROXIMATELY 50 FEET. THIS EVENT OCCURRED IN HOT SPOT 3.

• 2013-10-01 · Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport · H500 (HELO) / T38 · RWY 19 · Category B

  H500 (HELO) WAS CLEARED FOR THE OPTION TO RUNWAY 19. H500 TOUCHED DOWN ON RUNWAY 19 APPROACH END THEN LIFTED OFF AND HOVERED OVER THE APPROACH END OF RUNWAY 19, APPROXIMATELY 3 FEET ABOVE THE PAVEMENT. LC SAW THE H500 LIFT OFF, BUT DID NOT SEE THE H500 STOP IN A HOVER. T38 CALLED ON UHF FREQUENCY INBOUND FOR RUNWAY 19. LC CLEARED THE T38 FOR THE OPTION RUNWAY 19. T38 EXECUTED A LOW APPROACH ON RUNWAY 19, APPROXIMATELY 300 FT ABOVE THE STILL-HOVERING H500. TRAFFIC WAS NOT EXCHANGED. NEITHER AIRCRAFT REPORTED SEEING THE OTHER AIRCRAFT.