Tucson International Airport: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2017-11-09 · Tucson International Airport · BE20 / F16 · 11L · Category A

  A/C 1/BE20 WAS INSTRUCTED TO CROSS RUNWAY 11R, HOLD SHORT OF RUNWAY 11L, ON TAXIWAY DELTA. READ BACK WAS CORRECT. RUNWAY 11L WAS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND SHORTENED RUNWAY OPERATIONS WERE IN EFFECT. RUNWAY 11L THRESHOLD WAS RELOCATED NORTH OF RUNWAY 3/21 NEAR TAXIWAY ALPHA 1 TO SUPPORT THE SHORTEN RUNWAY OPERATIONS. FLIGHT OF 4 F16S WERE LANDING RUNWAY 11L. F16-1 HAD LANDED AND WAS ISSUED EXIT INSTRUCTIONS. BE20 TAXIED ONTO RUNWAY 11L AT TAXIWAY DELTA NORTHEAST BOUND WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION. LC SENT THE REMAINING FLIGHT AROUND. F16-2 WAS SENT AROUND PRIOR TO TAXIWAY DELTA DUE TO BE20 ENTERING THE RUNWAY. F16-3 WAS SENT AROUND ON A HALF-MILE FINAL, F16-4 WAS SENT AROUND ON A 1.4 MILE FINAL. ACCORDING TO CHIEF OF SAFETY, 162ND WING, AZ ANG, F16-2 WAS INSTRUCTED TO GO AROUND AT APPROXIMATELY 10 FEET ABOVE THE SURFACE. THE PILOT APPLIED FULL MILITARY POWER, MOMENTARILY TOUCHED DOWN AND THEN WAS AIRBORNE JUST PRIOR TO TAXIWAY DELTA. WING CHIEF OF SAFETY REVIEW OF THE F16-2 HUD SHOWS THE F16 PASSED ABEAM TAXIWAY DELTA ABOVE AND ALONG THE LEFT EDGE OF RUNWAY 11L AT 20 FEET AGL (RADAR ALTITUDE). THE PILOT OF THE F16 SEEN THE BE20 AS HE WENT BY HIS RIGHT WING, WITH THE NOSE OF THE BE20 AT THE RUNWAY CENTERLINE. CLOSEST HORIZONTAL DISTANCE IS ESTIMATED TO BE 58 FEET BASED ON THE F16 WING SPAN OF 32? 9? AND THE 150? WIDE RUNWAY. CLOSEST PROXIMITY 20? VERTICAL, ESTIMATED 58? FEET HORIZONTAL. WAS UNABLE TO DETERMINE WHERE EXACTLY F16-2 TOUCHED DOWN.

• 2006-06-02 · Tucson International Airport · PA32 / F16 · RWY 21/11L · Category A

  A PIPER PA32 REQUESTED TAKEOFF FROM LOCAL CONTROL 2 (LC2) FOR RUNWAY 21. LOCAL CONTROL 1 (LC1), WHO CONTROLS RUNWAY 21, GAVE LC2 PERMISSION TO USE RUNWAY 21. LC1 HAD 2/F16’S AT TAXIWAY A2 READY FOR TAKEOFF ON RUNWAY 11L. IN ORDER TO DEPART RUNWAY 11L THE 2/F16’S HAD TO CROSS RUNWAY 21 AT A2. LC2 CLEARED THE PA32 FOR TAKEOFF RUNWAY 21 FULL LENGTH. LC1 CLEARED THE 2/F16'S FOR TAKEOFF RUNWAY 11L. LC1 FORGOT THAT HE HAD GIVEN RUNWAY 21 TO LC 2 FOR A DEPARTURE AND HE DID NOT USE THE ESTABLISHED MEMORY AIDE “RWY 21 HOT”. AS A RESULT THE PA32 TRANSMITTED TO LC2 HE WAS ABORTING HIS TAKEOFF DUE TO THE F16’S CROSSING 21. THE PA32 ROLLED BETWEEN THE 2 F16’S CROSSING RUNWAY 21 AT A2 FOR A DEPARTURE ON RUNWAY11L. CLOSEST PROXIMITY REPORTED WAS 100 FEET LATERAL.