Until the end of last year, the UK CAA's definition was 'Any occurrence at an airport involving the unauthorised or unplanned presence of an aircraft, vehicle or person on the protected area of a surface designated for aircraft take-off and landing.’
Effective 1 Jan 2007, the UK CAA has now adopted the ICAO (and Eurocontrol) definition: ‘Any occurrence at an aerodrome involving the incorrect presence of an aircraft, vehicle or person on the protected area of a surface designated for the landing and take-off of aircraft.’
'Incorrect’ (rather than ‘unauthorised or unplanned’) means that incidents resulting from ATC error will now count as runway incursions. eg Where a pilot correctly follows the issued clearance but where the clearance itself was erroneous.
MOR procedure unchanged.
CAA SRG will decide whether a reported runway incursion was a runway incursion.
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