RJs Involved in Runway Incursions

SkyWest and Atlantic Southeast airlines aircraft were involved in two runway mishaps over the weekend of January 12, one of which seriously damaged a SkyWest jet at San Francisco. In what has been termed the most serious runway incursion at Atlanta, a Delta 757 taking off on Friday nearly collided with an...

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SkyWest and Atlantic Southeast airlines aircraft were involved in two runway mishaps over the weekend of January 12, one of which seriously damaged a SkyWest jet at San Francisco.
In what has been termed the most serious runway incursion at Atlanta, a Delta 757 taking off on Friday nearly collided with an ASA Bombardier CRJ 200 which was crossing a runway in front of the departing jet at about 10:30 am. The Federal Aviation Administration has begun a formal investigation as has ASA into the event surrounding its Flight 4876, and preliminary results suggest a pilot deviation for the ASA jet. There were 130 aboard the Mexico-bound 757 and 44 aboard the ASA jet when they came within 1,200 feet of one another.
FAA Spokesperson Kathleen Bergen indicated the tower had instructed the ASA jet, outbound to Greensboro, N.C., to hold short at the runway intersection. Instead, the aircraft proceeded across the runway despite the fact the pilot acknowledged and repeated the hold short instructions.
Also under investigation by the FAA is the SkyWest/United accident in San Francisco in which a United 757 backed into a SkyWest aircraft carrying 60 passengers and crew on Sunday. In what has been termed a serious accident, the event occurred at 7:30 pm at Terminal 3 as the 757, destined for maintenance, backed out of Gate 80, and collided with the Flight 6398, Bombardier CRJ 700, which was awaiting tower instructions after backing out of Gate 79. Headed to Boise, Id., passengers were evacuated and accommodated at local hotels. The tails of both aircraft sustained damage to the vertical stabilizer and engines when the 757 tail came over the top of the CRJ 700. Wing walkers, guiding aircraft safely out of gates, were not required for maintenance moves, according to the airport. There were two maintenance workers in the cockpit of the 757 steering the plane as it was being pushed by the tug truck. Sunday’s accident closed the eastbound runway for about an hour.
SkyWest was also involved in a controller error, one of four runway mishaps at the airport last year, in which a Republic Airlines jet departed prematurely nearly colliding with a SkyWest Brasilia converging from an intersecting runway. The controller forgot he cleared the SkyWest aircraft for landing.