Runwy incurion

This paper explores aircraft runway incursions. This paper is going to discuss definitions, categories, possible causes and avoidance through education and training The Tenerife disaster in the Canary Islands and the human factors involved. Runway incursions are nothing new.

Unfortunately, they keep occurring. Runway incursions happen for many reasons.

DEFINITIONS

Runway incursions have been and still are an inherent danger to aviation regardless if it is a small airfield, a large metropolitan airport or a flight deck of an aircraft carrier. What is a runway incursion? A runway incursion is any occurrence at an airport involving the incorrect presence of an aircraft, vehicle or person on the protected area of a surface designated for the landing and takeoff of aircraft that could affect the safety of flight. (FAA, 2013). A surface incident is where authorized or unauthorized movement within the movement area that could affect the flight safety (Wells A, and Rodrigues C, 2001). For example; an aircraft starts to push back before the authorization to do so. There are many causes for these incidents but one thing seems to be common, lack of communication, which is a human factor. In order for something to be considered to be a runway incursion, an aircraft must be doing one of four things; an aircraft must be taking off, have the intention of taking off, landing or intending to land furthermore, it must also be at least one aircraft, vehicle, pedestrian or object must be on the runway ( Wells, and Rodrigues, C 2001). For example, an aircraft is on the departure end of the runway because the pilot was given clearance from Air Traffic Control to take off while another aircraft is on