NTSB Advisory
National Transportation Safety Board
Washington, DC 20594
June 2, 2009
NTSB INVESTIGATING RUNWAY INCURSION AT CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
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.
NTSB Media Contact: Peter Knudson (202) 314-6100
peter.knudson@ntsb.gov