Originally Posted by
Iron Duck
Of course, but I notice that runway incursions are not exactly rare.
Really?
In the UK the average is 220/yr, 68% aircraft, 28% vehicles and 8% personnel. In the US it’s 1,500/yr on average. Clearly there’s different volumes of traffic, the US procedure of clearing an aircraft to land predictively allows the incursion possibility to increase to many times that of the UK/European sterile runway mode.
An incursion (Uk) means something has entered the runway strip without authorisation. It could be worst case aircraft on centreline or crossing the reds by a cars length, or an individual simply standing wrong side of the bars. Posters here are losing sight that whilst this accident involved an aircraft, a similar event or worse could have occurred with an airfield operations vehicle collision on the runway, and they don’t have adsb.
That’s why the “cause” of this accident is the incursion, and why the crew entered the runway.