Category: Runway Incursion


  • 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…