2025: Runway Incursions

Serious incursions (Category A and B)

• 2025-12-09 · Fort Smith Regional Airport · C182 / LJ40 · RWY 26 · Category A

  AIRCRAFT 1 ENTERED THE RWY 26 RSA WITHOUT ATC AUTHORIZATION. AIRCRAFT 1/C182 ADVISED GC READY FOR TAXI AFTER RECEIVING AN IFR CLEARANCE. THE PILOT STATED THAT THEY WERE AT "CHARLIE SOUTH" WHEN THE CLEARANCE WAS REQUESTED. GC INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 1 TO TAXI RWY 26 VIA TWY A, CROSS RWY 20. PILOT READBACK WAS CORRECT. AIRCRAFT 1 EXITED THE SOUTH HANGARS, CROSSED THE RWY 26 HOLD LINE AT TWY C BUT STOPPED SHORT OF THE RUNWAY EDGE LINE. AIRCRAFT 2/LJ40 WAS ROLLING OUT ON RWY 26 AND PASSED TWY C WITH AIRCRAFT 1 IN THE RSA. CLOSEST PROXIMITY: 50 FEET HORIZONTAL.

• 2025-11-18 · Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport · BE58 / C182 · RWY12L · Category B

  ATC DID NOT PROVIDE RUNWAY SEPARATION BETWEEN AIRCRAFT 1 AND AIRCRAFT 2. LC1 CLEARED AIRCRAFT 1/BE58 TO LAND RWY 12L ONE MILE NORTH OF MARSHALL LAKE. AIRCRAFT 1 WAS ON A 1 MILE FINAL AND LC1 CLEARED AIRCRAFT 2/C182 FOR TAKEOFF RWY 12L AT TWY A7. AIRCRAFT 1 REPORTED GOING AROUND RWY 12L ON A 1/4-MILE FINAL DUE TO TRAFFIC ON THE RUNWAY. TRACK DATA INDICATES AN OVERFLIGHT OCCURRED APPROXIMATELY 500 FEET FROM THE RUNWAY THRESHOLD. ADS-B ALTITUDE DATA INDICATES VERTICAL SPACING ESTIMATED AT 114 FEET.

• 2025-10-09 · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport · E170 / E170 · RWY 21L · Category B

  (EVENT 2 OF 3): A VEHICLE CROSSED RWY 21L WITHOUT ATC AUTHORIZATION. AFTER AN UNAUTHORIZED CROSSING OF RWY 27R, THE VEHICLE/POV CONTINUED WEST ON TWY V AND CROSSED RWY 21L. LC ISSUED RWY 21L GO-AROUND TO AIRCRAFT 2/E170 AS THE PILOT CROSSED THE THRESHOLD WITH THE VEHICLE ON RWY 21L- DIRECT OVERFLIGHT. CLOSEST PROXIMITY: 98FT HORIZONTAL AND 52FT VERTICAL.

• 2025-09-19 · Midland International Air and Space Port · C120 / BE30 · RWY 28 · Category B

  ATC DID NOT COORDINATE THE USE OF RWY 28. RWY 28 WAS UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF LC. GC INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 1/C120, RWY 16R TAXI VIA TWY P CROSS RWY 10/28. AIRCRAFT 1 TAXIED AS INSTRUCTED AND CROSSED RWY 28 AT TWY P. AIRCRAFT 2/BE30 WAS DEPARTING RWY 28 AND OVERFLEW AIRCRAFT 1 WITH AN ESTIMATED CLOSEST PROXIMITY OF 100 FEET VERTICAL.

• 2025-08-09 · Daniel K. Inouye International Airport · B777 / B777 · RUNWAY 8L · Category B

  VEHICLE CROSSED RWY 8L WITHOUT ATC AUTHORIZATION. AIRCRAFT 2 WAS ON LANDING ROLL RWY 8L AND ASKED LC IF THEY "SAW THE TRUCK CROSS UNDERNEATH THEM". LC CALLED VEHICLE AND VEHICLE STATED THAT THEY CROSSED RWY 8L AT TWY A SOUTHBOUND AS AIRCRAFT 2 WAS LANDING. AIRCRAFT 2 ALTITUDE WAS LESS THAN 100FT WHEN THEY OVERFLEW VEHICLE. FACILITY REPORTED ASDE ALERTED AS AIRCRAFT 2 WAS JUST SHORT OF THE THRESHOLD.

• 2025-08-03 · Zamperini Field · R22 / AA5 · RWY 29L · Category B

  ATC DID NOT PROVIDE RUNWAY SEPARATION BETWEEN AIRCRAFT 1 AND AIRCRAFT 2. LC INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 1/R22 TO CROSS TWY A, RWY 29L CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF. PILOT READ BACK WAS CORRECT. AIRCRAFT 1 ENTERED THE RWY 29L RSA BETWEEN TWY E AND TWY D AND LC INSTRUCTED THE PILOT TO HOLD POSITION. LC INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 2/AA5 TO GO AROUND RWY 29L, 350FT PAST THE LANDING THRESHOLD. ADS-B DATA INDICATES AIRCRAFT 1 PERFORMED A TOUCH AND GO OR VERY LOW APPROACH. ON THE GO, AIRCRAFT 2 MOVED RIGHT OF THE RUNWAY IN THE VICINITY OF AIRCRAFT 1, STILL IN THE RSA. CLOSEST PROXIMITY WAS 110FT LATERALLY AND 75FT VERTICALLY.

• 2025-07-18 · Van Nuys Airport · SR20 / EA50 · RWY 16R · Category A

  ATC DID NOT PROVIDE RUNWAY SEPARATION BETWEEN AIRCRAFT 1 AND AIRCRAFT 2. AIRCRAFT 1/SR20 WAS ISSUED RIGHT BASE RWY 16R. PILOT READ BACK WAS CORRECT. LC1 THEN INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 1 TO CHANGE TO, CLEARED TO LAND RWY 16L. PILOT DID NOT READ BACK THE CLEARANCE. LC1 INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 2/E50A TO LUAW RWY 16R FULL LENGTH. AIRCRAFT 1 ASKED IF THEY WERE CLEARED TO LAND RWY 16R ON A .29 MILE FINAL. LC1 DID NOT REPLY AND CLEARED AIRCRAFT 2 FOR TAKEOFF RWY 16R. LC1 THEN INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 1 TO GO AROUND RWY 16R LESS THAN 100FT FROM THE THRESHOLD AND CANCELED AIRCRAFT 2'S TAKEOFF CLEARANCE. AIRCRAFT 2 DID NOT START TAKEOFF ROLL. AIRCRAFT 1 OVERFLEW AIRCRAFT 2 - AS THEY DESCENDED TOWARD THE 1432FT DISPLACED THRESHOLD - BY APPROXIMATELY 75FT TIRES-TO-TAIL.

• 2025-06-07 · Sarasota Bradenton International Airport · B737 / PIAT · RWY 32 · Category B

  ATC DID NOT PROVIDE RUNWAY SEPARATION BETWEEN AIRCRAFT 1 AND AIRCRAFT 2. LC CLEARED AIRCRAFT 2/PIAT TO LAND RWY 22 AND ADVISED TRAFFIC WOULD BE HOLDING IN POSITION ON CROSSING RUNWAY. LC INSTRUCTED AIRCRAFT 1/B737 TO LUAW RWY 32. LC CLEARED AIRCRAFT 1 FOR TAKEOFF ON RWY 32. SIMULTANEOUSLY, THE DATA TAG FOR AIRCRAFT 2 DROPPED FROM THE RADAR DISPLAY. AIRCRAFT 2 WAS STILL ON LANDING ROLLOUT APPROACHING THE RWY 22/32 INTERSECTION AS AIRCRAFT 1 WAS PASSING THROUGH THE INTERSECTION. LC ADVISED AIRCRAFT 2 TO STOP AND AIRCRAFT 2 STOPPED PRIOR TO THE RWY 32 EDGE LINE. FACILITY ADVISED APPROXIMATE CLOSEST PROXIMITY: 58 FEET LATERAL.