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Chicago Executive Airport: Runway Incursions

102 reported incursions · 3 serious (Category A/B) · Chicago/Prospect Heights/Wheeling, IL

By year

  • 20252
  • 202411
  • 20237
  • 20226
  • 20215
  • 20204
  • 20199
  • 201813
  • 20177
  • 20165
  • 20152
  • 20141
  • 20126
  • 20116
  • 20091
  • 20085
  • 20072
  • 20053
  • 20044
  • 20032
  • 20021

By severity category

  • Category D — no immediate safety consequence48
  • Category C — ample margin to avoid a collision45
  • Other / pre-2008 classifications6
  • Category B — significant separation loss2
  • Category A — serious, collision narrowly avoided1

By type

  • Pilot deviation46
  • Air traffic control26
  • Vehicle or pedestrian23
  • Other / unknown7

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

  • 2012-07-08 · Chicago Executive Airport · C550 / C172 · RWY 34 · Category B

    C550 HAD BEEN CLEARED TO LAND ON RUNWAY 34. WHEN C550 WAS APPROXIMATELY 4 NM FINAL, N6265T/C172 CALLED LOCAL CONTROL (LC), REQUESTING DEPARTURE FROM THE END OF RUNWAY 34. LC ISSUED RUNWAY HEADING, AND CLEARED THE C172 FOR TAKEOFF. (LC DID NOT ISSUE THE ARRIVAL TRAFFIC TO THE DEPARTING C172, NOR THE DEPARTING TRAFFIC TO THE ARRIVING C550). LC ISSUED TRAFFIC BETWEEN ANOTHER CESSNA AND LJ45 NORTH OF THE AIRFIELD. (TWO CALLS TO ESTABLISH VISUAL CONTACT). LC DID NOT RECOGNIZE THE CLOSURE BETWEEN THE DEPARTING C172 AND THE ARRIVING C550, UNTIL THE C550 REPORTED ON SHORT FINAL THAT HE WAS EXECUTING A MISSED APPROACH. WHEN LC QUERIED WHY THE C550 WAS GOING-AROUND, THE PILOT REPORTED THAT AN AIRCRAFT PULLED OUT IN FRONT OF HIM ON THE RUNWAY, AT THE APPROACH END. LC INSTRUCTED THE C550 TO ENTER RIGHT TRAFFIC FOR RUNWAY 34. THE RADAR REPLAY SHOWED THE C550 AT 800 FT MSL ON SHORT FINAL (RUNWAY 34 ELEVATION 645 FT MSL) UNTIL APPROXIMATELY MIDFIELD ON HIS GO-AROUND. THE C550 THEN INDICATED 900 FT. MSL TO THE DEPARTURE END OF THE RUNWAY BEFORE COMMENCING A TURN. THE C550 PILOT INDICATED HE WAS APPROXIMATELY 200 FEET AGL WHEN HE STARTED THE CLIMB AND ESTIMATES HE OVERFLEW THE C172 BETWEEN 300 AND 400 FEET.

  • 2005-10-18 · Chicago Executive Airport · HXC (EXP) / AC90 · RWY 34 · Category A

    A LANCAIR LC40 (EXPERIMENTAL) LANDED RUNWAY 34, EXITED THE RUNWAY AT THE END, AND WHILE TAXIING SOUTH ON K WAS INSTRUCTED TO HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 34 ON RUNWAY 24, WHICH PILOT READ BACK CORRECTLY. AS THE LC40 WAS TAXIING SOUTH ON K, PILOT WAS INSTRUCTED TO GIVE WAY TO A LEARJET EXITING RUNWAY 34 AT K2. AFTER THE LEARJET EXITED, THE LC40 TURNED AT TAXIWAY K2 AND CROSSED RUNWAY 34 IN FRONT OF A ROCKWELL AC90 ON DEPARTURE RUNWAY 34 FULL LENGTH. THE AC90 ROTATED JUST PRIOR TO K2 AND FLEW OVER THE LC40 BY 50 FEET VERTICAL.

  • 2002-05-17 · Chicago Executive Airport · C172 / PAY3 · RWY 12 · Category B

Counts are reported events, not a danger ranking. Before FY2008 the FAA used a narrower definition, so earlier years are not directly comparable.

Source: FAA Runway Safety (RWS) database, via ASIAS · United States Government public domain.