St. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2025-03-03 · St. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport · C172 · RWY 36 · Category B

  ATC DID NOT PROVIDE RUNWAY SEPARATION BETWEEN VEHICLE AND AIRCRAFT 2. AIRCRAFT 2/C172 WAS CLEARED FOR TOUCH-AND-GO RUNWAY 36 AND ON SHORT FINAL. GC REQUESTED TO CROSS RUNWAY 36 AT TAXIWAY A6 WITH VEHICLE. LC APPROVED THE CROSSING. AFTER PASSING THE THRESHOLD, AIRCRAFT 2 QUESTIONED LC, ASKING, "TOWER DID YOU SEE THAT TRUCK?", WITH NO RESPONSE. THE EVENT WAS NOT OBSERVED BY LC OR GC. LC LATER STATED, THEY FORGOT AIRCRAFT 2 WAS ON THE APPROACH WHEN THE CROSSING WAS APPROVED. FACILITY WAS UNABLE TO DETERMINE CLOSEST PROXIMITY OR IF AN OVERFLIGHT OCCURRED.

• 2008-06-18 · St. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport · SR22 / PA32 · RWY 35R · Category B

  GROUND CONTROL (GC) REQUESTED FROM LOCAL CONTROL (LC) TO CROSS RUNWAY 35R AT TAXIWAY GOLF WITH A PIPER PA32. LC ADVISED GC TO CROSS AFTER A CESSNA C414 AIRCRAFT THAT WILL GO INTO POSITION ON 35R ABEAM TAXIWAY MIKE AND DEPART. WHEN THE C414 PASSED GOLF, GC INSTRUCTED THE PA32 TO CROSS 35R AT GOLF. A CIRRUS SR22 WAS ON SHORT FINAL 35R AT THE TIME WHEN ATCT SUPERVISOR ADVISED BOTH LC AND GC OF THE SR22. GC ATTEMPTED TO STOP THE PA32 BUT THE AIRCRAFT HAD ALREADY CROSSED THE RUNWAY EDGE. LC WAS INSTRUCTED TO ISSUE A GO AROUND TO THE SR22. AT THAT TIME THE SR22 HAD CROSSED LANDING THRESHOLD AND INITIATED A GO AROUND ON HIS OWN AND LC ISSUED GO AROUND INSTRUCTIONS. CLOSEST VERTICAL PROXIMITY WAS AN ESTIMATED 100 FEET AS THE PA32 WAS CROSSING THE RUNWAY AT GOLF (APPROXIMATELY 2,800 FEET FROM APPROACH END 35R) AND THE SR22 WAS PASSING OVERHEAD. ATCT COULD NOT DETERMINE IF A DIRECT OVERFLIGHT OCCURRED.

• 2007-12-07 · St. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport · C172 / BE33 · RWY 9 · Category A

  A CESSNA C172 WAS TAXIED TO RUNWAY 17L TO HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 9 AT TAXIWAY ALPHA. A REVIEW OF THE TAPES SHOWED THE C172 DID READ BACK THE INSTRUCTIONS CORRECTLY. GROUND CONTROL (GC) OBSERVED THE C172 IN THE MIDDLE OF RUNWAY 9 NORTHBOUND AND ADVISED LOCAL CONTROL (LC). A BEECH BE33 WAS LANDING RUNWAY 9 AND WHEN LC WAS TOLD OF THE CONFLICT BUT IT WAS TOO LATE TO SEND THE BE33 AROUND. GC DID TRY TO HAVE THE C172 CONTINUE TO TAXI AND CLEAR THE RUNWAY. THE BE33 REPORTED HE DID TAKE EVASIVE ACTION BY SWERVING BEHIND THE C172 AND REPORTED CLOSEST HORIZONTAL PROXIMITY OF 20 FEET.