Runway incursion
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A runway incursion is an aviation incident involving improper positioning of vehicles or people on any airport runway or its protected area. When an incursion involves an active runway being used by arriving or departing aircraft, the potential for a collision hazard or instrument landing system (ILS) interference can exist. At present, various runway safety technologies and processes are commonly employed to reduce the risk and potential consequences of such an event.
]] A runway incursion is an aviation incident involving improper positioning of vehicles or people on any airport runway or its protected area. When an incursion involves an active runway being used by arriving or departing aircraft, the potential for a collision hazard or instrument landing system (ILS) interference can exist. At present, various runway safety technologies and processes are commonly employed to reduce the risk and potential consequences of such an event.
Definition
The internationally-accepted definition of a runway incursion is: In the United States, the FAA classifies runway incursions into 3 types, with 5 levels of severity:
List
List of runway collision accidents with fatalities
Category A runway incursion incidents
United States
The following table lists Category A runway incursion incidents in the United States since 2001. This table only includes incidents in which all involving planes were operating under FAR Part 121 and Part 129, and were investigated by both FAA and NTSB. Note that the Category rank of Air Canada Flight 759 incident in 2017 was "N/A" according to the FAA Runway Safety database, so it is not in the following table.
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External links
FAA Runway Safety Statistics
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