Narrative:

I had just opened local east 1 at the start of the day shift. I was briefed on closures which included taxiways M3; M4; M5; el between runway 17R and runway 17C and M between M3 and M5. I cleared aircraft X to land on runway 17C and advised him of the taxiway closures and asked that he plan to exit at M6. I then cleared aircraft Y to land and advised them to plan the same exit. On landing; aircraft X advised that M6 was coned off and not usable. I sent aircraft Y around ; but noticing that they may have touched down and seeing that enough of aircraft X appeared to be on the un-coned portion of M6; advised aircraft Y to disregard. Aircraft Y did go around. Dfw airport authority said that M6 was closed and they just forgot to tell us.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: DFW Tower Controller reported a runway incursion with two arrivals on the same runway.

Narrative: I had just opened Local East 1 at the start of the day shift. I was briefed on closures which included taxiways M3; M4; M5; EL between RWY 17R and RWY 17C and M between M3 and M5. I cleared Aircraft X to land on Runway 17C and advised him of the taxiway closures and asked that he plan to exit at M6. I then cleared Aircraft Y to land and advised them to plan the same exit. On landing; Aircraft X advised that M6 was coned off and not usable. I sent Aircraft Y around ; but noticing that they may have touched down and seeing that enough of Aircraft X appeared to be on the un-coned portion of M6; advised Aircraft Y to disregard. Aircraft Y did go around. DFW Airport Authority said that M6 was closed and they just forgot to tell us.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.