On September 10, 2024, two well rested pilots operating an Airbus A350-941 were involved in a ground collision accident at Atlanta International Airport, GA (ATL) with a Bombardier CRJ-900LR. Both aircraft were taxiing for departure with the CRJ-900 holding short of runway 08R at taxiway H. At that time the A350 taxied along taxiway E.…
On March 8, 2024, at about 0758 central standard time, two well rested pilots operating a Boeing 737-8 experienced a runway excursion while exiting runway 27 onto taxiway SC at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), Houston, Texas. The left main landing gear (MLG) departed the paved surface and contacted a concrete structure that was…
On October 24, 2023 two well rested pilots operating a Raytheon Hawker 850XP were taking off on runway 22 when their left wing collided with the vertical stabilizer of a Cessna Citation Mustang that was landing on runway 13R at William P. Hobby Airport (HOU), Houston, Texas. Day visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time…
On February 4th, 2023, an air traffic controller and two well rested pilots were involved in a runway incursion at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS), Austin, Texas. The local controller had cleared the departing airplane for takeoff on runway 18L and instructed the landing airplane to continue its approach to the same runway. The controller was…
Interruptions and multitasking led to distractions that caused two well rested pilots operating a B-777 airliner to mistakenly cross a runway occupied by another airplane taking off at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. In the evening hours of Jan. 13, 2023, air traffic controllers cleared a B-737 with 159 passengers and crew…
On May 15, 2017, two well rested pilots, operating a Learjet 35A, departed controlled flight while on a circling approach to runway 1 at Teterboro Airport (TEB), Teterboro, New Jersey, and impacted a commercial building and parking lot. The pilot-in-command (PIC) and the second-in-command (SIC) died; no one on the ground was injured. The airplane…
On November 20, 2013, two well rested pilots operating a Boeing 747 Dreamlifter en route from John F. Kennedy International Airport to McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kan., mistakenly landed 8 nautical miles away at Colonel James Jabara Airport. The crew was conducting visual approaches at night in visual meteorological conditions (VMC) and thought they saw the correct…