Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2010-03-19 · Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport · C208 / B737 · RWY 25R · Category B

  A CESSNA C208 WAS CLEARED TO LAND ON RUNWAY 25L WHICH PILOT READ BACK. A BOEING B737 WAS IN POSITION ON PARALLEL RUNWAY 25R FULL LENGTH (E13) WITH CLEARANCE FOR TAKEOFF. THE C208 THEN FLEW OVER THE B737 AND LANDED ON RUNWAY 25R INSTEAD OF 25L AS CLEARED. THE B737 OBSERVED THE C208 AND HELD. CLOSEST PROXIMITY REPORTED WAS 50-100 FEET VERTICAL. AVI ANALYSIS INDICATED THE C208 FLEW JUST LEFT OF THE B737 AT AN ESTIMATED 125 FEET AGL AND ENTERED THE RUNWAY AREA 500 FEET IN FRONT OF B737, LANDED THEN EXITING AT TAXIWAY F6. ASDE-X DID NOT ALARM.

• 2006-05-18 · Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport · WW24 / B722 · RWY 25R · Category A

  LOCAL CONTROL CLEARED A WESTWIND WW24 TO CROSS RUNWAY 25L, TURN RIGHT ON TAXIWAY FOXTROT AND TAXI TO RUNWAY 25R. THE WW24 PILOT READ BACK THE CLEARANCE CORRECTLY. THE WW24 INSTEAD ENTERED RUNWAY 25R AT F9 AND CONFLICTED WITH A BOEING B722 ON TAKEOFF ROLL SAME RUNWAY. GROUND CONTROL ALERTED LOCAL WHO IMMEDIATELY INSTRUCTED THE WW24 TO EXIT THE RUNWAY. THE WW24 MADE A HARD LEFT 180 DEGREE TURN TO EXIT RUNWAY 25R ONTO F9 AT WHICH POINT THE B722 WAS 1500 FEET FROM F9 (TIME LINE REPORTED WAS 10 SECONDS FROM THE 1500 FOOT POINT TO F9 AND BASED ON THAT, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THE B722 WAS APPROX 500 FEET AWAY WITH WW24 STILL NEAR RUNWAY EDGE AND NOT YET CLEAR OF RUNWAY). THE B722 WAS AT ROTATION SPEED (VR) NEARING F9, AND OBSERVING THE WW24 CLEARING THE RUNWAY, CONTINUED DEPARTURE ROTATING JUST PRIOR TO F9. CLOSEST PROXIMITY REPORTED WAS 100 FEET HORIZONTAL WITH WW24 CLEAR OF RUNWAY AND B722 BECOMING AIRBORNE BY F9.

• 2006-04-29 · Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport · A320 · RWY 25R · Category A

  AN AIRBUS A320, WHILE ON DEPARTURE RUNWAY 25R FULL LENGTH, REPORTED MISSING A PEDESTRIAN CROSSING THE RUNWAY. ATCT THEN OBSERVED A MAN WALKING IN THE INFIELD BETWEEN RUNWAY 25R AND TAXIWAY ECHO NEAR INTERSECTION E9. THE A320 PILOT FIRST OBSERVED PEDESTRIAN ENTERING THE RUNWAY APPROXIMATELY 2000 TO 3000 FEET IN FRONT OF THEM AT WHICH POINT THE AIRCRAFT WAS AT 80 KNOTS AND STILL ON THE GROUND. INDIVIDUAL WAS RUNNING FROM SOUTH TO NORTH AND WAS ON AIRCRAFT’S RIGHT AS IT PASSED WITH ESTIMATED CLOSET PROXIMITY REPORTED BY PILOT AS 50 FEET HORIZONTAL. AIRPORT AUTHORITIES WERE NOTIFIED.

• 2002-05-02 · Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport · BE20 / A319 · RWY 25R · Category A