The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a runway incursion that occurred on Friday morning at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) involving a general aviation aircraft and a regional jet airliner bound for New Bern, NC (EWN).
At about 10:17 a.m. on May 29, a PSA Airlines CRJ-200 regional jet operated as US Airways Express flight 2390, was cleared for takeoff on runway 18L. After the regional jet was into its takeoff roll, a Pilatus PC-12, a single engine turboprop aircraft, was cleared to taxi into position and hold farther down the same runway in preparation for a departure roll that was to begin at the taxiway A intersection. After the ground-based collision warning system (ASDE-X) alerted controllers to the runway incursion, the takeoff clearance for the regional jet was cancelled. The pilot of the PC-12, seeing the regional jet coming down the runway on a collision course, taxied the PC-12 to the side of the runway. The FAA reported that the regional jet stopped approximately 10 feet from the PC-12.
Visual meteorological conditions prevailed with 9 miles visibility. There were no reported injuries to any of the 42 passengers or crew of three aboard the jet, or to any of those on the PC-12.
The aircraft involved were
JIA390 and
N409DR.
I skimmed through
the archived feed and picked out some of the pertinent bits:
12:11 - N409DR requests taxi, told to expect intersection takeoff on 18L at A
14:42 - LC instructs JIA390 to hold short 18L
15:14 - JIA390 TIPH'd for 18L
16:44 - JIA390 receives takeoff clearance
16:54 - N409DR TIPH'd for 18L
17:14 - JIA390's takeoff clearance canceled
[feed goes to ground for a bit]
18:01 - JIA390 begins exiting 18L at C9
18:22 - Taxi instructions for N409DR on D
23:25 - Cut off instructions for N409DR to hold on 18L past the 23 intersection
25:45 - N409DR gets takeoff clearance for 18L at intersection A
Yikes. Sounds like the LC mistook N409DR as a full-length takeoff.