Orlando Sanford International Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2025-04-15 · Orlando Sanford International Airport · BE20 / PA28 · RWY 27C · Category B

  AIRCRAFT 1 ENTERED RWY 27C WITHOUT ATC AUTHORIZATION. AIRCRAFT 1/BE20 LANDED RWY 27R AND WAS INSTRUCTED TO TURN LEFT ON RWY 18, CONTACT GC. GC INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 1 TO HOLD SHORT RUNWAY 27C. AN UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT TRANSMITTED "RWY 27C, SPOT TWO", BEFORE AIRCRAFT 1 COULD ACKNOWLEDGE THE HOLD SHORT INSTRUCTIONS. GC DID NOT REITERATE FOR AIRCRAFT 1 TO HOLD SHORT RWY 27C. AIRCRAFT 1 ENTERED RWY 27C. LC2 INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 2/P28A TO GO-AROUND RWY 27C PRIOR TO THE THRESHOLD. SFB TOWER ESTIMATED THAT AIRCRAFT 2 OVERFLEW AIRCRAFT 1 BY APPROXIMATELY 150 FEET.

• 2021-11-29 · Orlando Sanford International Airport · PA28 / LJ55 · RY27R AND TY R · Category A

  ATC DID NOT PROVIDE RUNWAY SEPARATION ON RUNWAY 27R BETWEEN AIRCRAFT 1 AND AIRCRAFT 2. AIRCRAFT 2/LJ55 WAS CLEARED TO LAND RWY 27R. WHEN AIRCRAFT 2 WAS ON A 1/2 MILE FINAL TO RUNWAY 27R, THE LOCAL CONTROLLER CLEARED AIRCRAFT 1/PA28 FOR TAKEOFF FROM RUNWAY 27R AT TAXIWAY R. AIRCRAFT 1 CROSSED THE RUNWAY 27R HOLD BAR AT TAXIWAY R AFTER AIRCRAFT 2 HAD CROSSED RUNWAY 27R LANDING THRESHOLD. AIRCRAFT 1 WAS PAST THE RWY 27R RUNWAY EDGE LINE AS AIRCRAFT 2 PASSED TAXIWAY R DURING LANDING ROLL. THE TAKEOFF CLEARANCE FOR AIRCRAFT 1 WAS CANCELLED AFTER THIS INCIDENT HAD OCCURRED.. AFTER LANDING, AIRCRAFT 2 ADVISED LC, "SOMEONE WAS CROSSING THE RUNWAY WHEN WE WERE LANDING." A LOSS OF SEPARATION OCCURRED BETWEEN AIRCRAFT 2 AND AIRCRAFT 1. CLOSEST PROXIMITY APPROXIMATELY 75 FEET.

• 2014-10-03 · Orlando Sanford International Airport · C680 / C172 · RWY 27C · Category A

  C680 WAS AT THE SOUTHWEST RAMP AND ISSUED TAXI INSTRUCTIONS FOR A RUNWAY 27R INTERSECTION DEPARTURE AT TAXIWAY ROMEO VIA TAXIWAYS KILO AND BRAVO. C680 TURNED ONTO TAXIWAY KILO 1 AT THE DEPARTURE END OF RUNWAY 27C IN RUNWAY SAFETY AREA. C172 WAS DEPARTING RUNWAY 27C. LOCAL CONTROL 2 ATTEMPTED TO CANCEL THE C172 TAKE-OFF CLEARANCE, BUT THE C172 WAS ALREADY AIRBORNE. GROUND CONTROL STOPPED THE C680 JUST SHORT OF TAXIWAY LIMA. C172 OVERFLEW C680 BY AN ESTIMATED 80 - 100 FEET. THIS EVENT OCCURRED AT HOT SPOT 1.

• 2013-03-18 · Orlando Sanford International Airport · MD80 / SR20 · RWY 27C · Category B

  MD80 WAS TAXIED TO RUNWAY 27R VIA TAXIWAY CHARLIE AND RUNWAY 36 TO HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 27C. READ BACK WAS CORRECT. MD80 CROSSED RUNWAY 27C ON RUNWAY 36 IN FRONT OF LANDING SR20. SR20 FLEW OVER THE MD80 WITH AN ESTIMATED 100 FEET OR LESS VERTICAL SEPARATION.

• 2009-09-23 · Orlando Sanford International Airport · BE9L / P32R · RWY 9C · Category B

  A BEECH BE9L (C90) WAS TAXIED TO SOUTHEAST RAMP VIA TAXIWAY BRAVO, ROMEO, TO HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 9C. THE BE9L WAS SUBSEQUENTLY INSTRUCTED TO TURN RIGHT ON KILO AND TAXI VIA KILO, CHARLIE, ROMEO AND TO HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 9R. ALL READ BACK WERE CORRECT. APPROXIMATELY ONE MINUTE LATER THE BE9L TURNED LEFT FROM KILO INSTEAD OF CONTINUING TO CHARLIE, ENTERED THE OVERRUN FOR RUNWAY 9C AND TAXED TOWARDS THE APPROACH END THUS CONFLICTING WITH A PIPER P32R ON SHORT FINAL SAME RUNWAY. THE P32R WAS LESS THAN ONE QUARTER (.25) MILE FINAL WHEN INSTRUCTED TO GO AROUND AND ADVISED OF THE BE9L IN THE OVERRUN. THE BE9L WAS APPROXIMATELY HALF WAY BETWEEN KILO AND THE APPROACH END OF RUNWAY 9C WHEN INSTRUCTED TO HOLD POSITION AND PILOT COMPLIED. IT APPEARED THE P32R FLEW OVER THE BE9L ON THE GO AROUND BY AN ESTIMATED 50 FEET VERTICAL.