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An aircraft landed on a closed runway. All parties involved note the difficulty in finding appropriate information in the NOTAM presentations available to them.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 926250 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201101 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Lancair Columbia |
| Flight Phase | Landing |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Approach Departure Trainee |
| Qualification | Air Traffic Control Developmental |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | Supervisor / CIC |
| Qualification | Air Traffic Control Fully Certified |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Incursion Runway |
Narrative:
A COL4 was IFR inbound landing. The COL4 requested the RNAV runway xx into the airport. ATC cleared the COL4; unaware the runway was closed. The pilot landed and called the TRACON facility to ask why he was cleared into the airport on a closed runway. All the controllers involved; including the pilot; was unaware of the runway being closed. The NOTAM for the runway closure was indeed on the NOTAMS page just hard to see so it was overlooked. There was no accident that was involved in this error. I think who ever received the notice of the airport closure should have made it easier to read and well known for everyone. If there were a visible notation on the radar position; I feel this would not have happened.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: An aircraft landed on a closed runway. All parties involved note the difficulty in finding appropriate information in the NOTAM presentations available to them.
Narrative: A COL4 was IFR inbound landing. The COL4 requested the RNAV Runway XX into the airport. ATC cleared the COL4; unaware the runway was closed. The pilot landed and called the TRACON facility to ask why he was cleared into the airport on a closed runway. All the controllers involved; including the pilot; was unaware of the runway being closed. The NOTAM for the runway closure was indeed on the NOTAMS page just hard to see so it was overlooked. There was no accident that was involved in this error. I think who ever received the notice of the airport closure should have made it easier to read and well known for everyone. If there were a visible notation on the RADAR position; I feel this would not have happened.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.