The runway incursion issue has been on the Safety Board’s Most Wanted List since its inception in 1990. In the late 1980s, an inordinate number of runway incursions/ground collision accidents resulted in substantial loss of life, and the Board issued numerous safety recommendations addressing the issue.
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I used a major runway incursion as an example from another country because of its significance and relevancy. But what is going on here in our own country? Are we safe? Could this or has this happened in the United States?
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You would think that of all the types of aircraft accidents confronting us, runway incursion accidents would be the easiest to prevent. Apparently not. They are still with us in numbers that increase as airport traffic increases.
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Runway incursion accidents involving general aviation aircraft and air carriers are rare, but even one is too many. The most recent occurred in Quincy, Illinois, in 1996, when a departing Beech King Air collided with a landing Beech 1900 (see "Safety Pilot: Collision at Quincy," December 1997 Pilot).
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FAA defines a runway incursion as “any occurrence in the airport runway environment involving an aircraft, vehicle, person or object on the ground that creates a collision hazard or results in a loss of required separation with an aircraft taking off, intending to take off, landing, or intending to land.”;
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John Prater, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l, set the bar high for runway safety today, challenging both government and industry to establish a goal of zero serious runway incursions involving commercial airliners in his testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation...
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2005 Logan Airport runway incursion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2005 Logan Airport runway incursion was a near runway collision that occurred at approximately 7:40 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on June 9, 2005 between US Airways Flight 1170 (US1170) and Aer ...
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There were 122 deaths at Linate, 110 in the SAS Boeing MD-87 that was attempting a cleared take-off in poor visibility, four in the Cessna Citation CJ2 that made the runway incursion, and eight people in the cargo centre that the MD-87 hit.
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Runway incursion accidents and near accidents on airport runways, taxiways and ramps are on the rise. Thtat greatly concerns national aviation safety officials. ... ; Runway Incursion Prevention; Cockpit Displays Could Help Reduce Accidents;
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