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A small aircraft pilot reported a near collision on a taxiway at dfw with a police officer in a squad car.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 927033 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201101 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | DFW.Airport |
| State Reference | TX |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Small Aircraft |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 135 |
| Flight Phase | Taxi |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying Single Pilot |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 120 Flight Crew Total 2400 Flight Crew Type 300 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Conflict Ground Conflict Critical Ground Event / Encounter Vehicle |
| Miss Distance | Horizontal 10 |
Narrative:
After landing at dfw and exiting runway 31R I was taxiing west bound on taxiway Z approaching 35C. A police officer traveling southbound on P at a high rate of speed was on a direct collision course with my aircraft. At the last second he slammed on the brakes; made a hard left turn and crossed about 5 to 10 ft off of my right wing to go behind me. The officer did have his lights on I suspect they were responding to a call. It is unclear to me whether he noticed me earlier or if he expected me to give way to him/her. I made a statement that a police officer almost collided with me to ground control and was asked if I wanted a number to call to file a report. It was not necessary; but I was met by a dfw operations representative on the ramp to get a statement. There was no collision and I did not have to make any aggressive actions with my aircraft to avoid collision.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A small aircraft pilot reported a near collision on a taxiway at DFW with a police officer in a squad car.
Narrative: After landing at DFW and exiting Runway 31R I was taxiing west bound on Taxiway Z approaching 35C. A police officer traveling southbound on P at a high rate of speed was on a direct collision course with my aircraft. At the last second he slammed on the brakes; made a hard left turn and crossed about 5 to 10 FT off of my right wing to go behind me. The officer did have his lights on I suspect they were responding to a call. It is unclear to me whether he noticed me earlier or if he expected me to give way to him/her. I made a statement that a police officer almost collided with me to Ground Control and was asked if I wanted a number to call to file a report. It was not necessary; but I was met by a DFW Operations representative on the ramp to get a statement. There was no collision and I did not have to make any aggressive actions with my aircraft to avoid collision.
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.