Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2020-07-01 · Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport · DA40 / DA40 · 4 · Category B

  A VEHICLE (VEHICLE) CROSSED RUNWAY 04/22 WITHOUT CLEARANCE RESULTING IN A LOSS OF SEPARATION WITH AIRCRAFT 1 (DA40) THAT WAS CONDUCTING A TOUCH-N-GO ON RUNWAY 04. VEHICLE CALLED THE LOCAL CONTROL (LC) CONTROLLER AND REQUESTED CLEARANCE ONTO RUNWAY 22, PROCEEDING TO TAXIWAY HOTEL FOR THE AIRFIELD CONSTRUCTION AREA. THE LC CONTROLLER INSTRUCTED VEHICLE TO HOLD-SHORT OF RUNWAY 22 AND PROCEED ON RUNWAY 28, THE DRIVER READ BACK HOLD-SHORT OF 22 AND PROCEED ON 28. THE LC CONTROLLER OBSERVED VEHICLE RAPIDLY APPROACHING RUNWAY 22 ON RUNWAY 28 AS AIRCRAFT 1 WAS ON ROTATION FOR TOUCH-N-GO AND INSTRUCTED VEHICLE TO HOLD SHORT RUNWAY 22 TWICE, BUT THE DRIVER DID NOT RESPOND. VEHICLE CROSSED RUNWAY 04/22 ON RUNWAY 28 AS AIRCRAFT 1 ENTERED INTO THE INTERSECTION OF RUNWAYS 22 AND 28. THE FACILITY REPORTED THAT AIRCRAFT 1 OVERFLEW THE VEHICLE BY APPROXIMATELY 150 FEET.

• 2007-06-23 · Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport · ERCO / BE18 · RWY 22 · Category B

  AN ERCO 415C, THE THIRD AIRCRAFT IN A FLIGHT OF 3 THAT HAD BEEN CLEARED TO LAND RUNWAY 22, LANDED ON RUNWAY 25 INSTEAD. THE ERCO 415C TOUCHED DOWN NEAR F1 ON RUNWAY 25 AND STOPPED PRIOR TO F2 AND EXITED AT F2. THE RUNWAY WAS CLOSED WITH A STATIC DISPLAY BE18 AIRCRAFT AND 2 COUNTY VEHICLES ON THE RUNWAY AT THE TIME AND PARKED BETWEEN F2 AND ECHO TAXIWAYS. THE COUNTY VEHICLES WERE NOTIFIED THAT THE ERCO 415C MAY LAND ON RUNWAY 25. CLOSEST PROXIMITY REPORTED WAS 500 FEET HORIZONTAL.