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Incident: Air Canada A319 and NavCanada DH8A at Ottawa on Dec 15th 2008, runway separation lost
An Air Canada Airbus A319-100, registration C-FZUG performing flight AC446 from Toronto,ON to Ottawa,ON (Canada) with 98 people on board, was on an IFR approach to runway 25 of Ottawa and cleared to land runway 25. At the same time a NavCanada de Havilland Dash 8-100 was executing a VFR low approach to runway 32 performing calibration and inspection of the ILS. The tower informed both planes about the presense of the other. After touch down during roll out the crew of the Airbus noticed, that the Dash came along crossing runway 32 at a height of 50 feet, and applied maximum braking to avoid arriving at the intersection of the two runways at the same time as the Dash.
NavCanada is investigating based on the assessment, that runway separation was not adequately ensured.
Source: Aviation Herald
319: Height 11.76 m. (38' 7")
This report doesn't make sense (to me).
- There is 6000' of runway between the Rwy 25 threshold and the intersection at Rwy 32. Does an A319 really need maximum braking to stop in that distance? I thought that would be a pretty leisurely stop.
- With another aircraft on an approach to 32, even without intent to land, surely AC446 would not have been cleared to cross 32. Wouldn't he have been issued a LAHSO (land and hold short) clearance?
- Regardless of the clearance (and I'm still convinced it would've been LAHSO) wouldn't the AC446 pilot really want to plan to stop before rwy 32 just out of caution? Otherwise, what was he thinking? "I'm on a collision course with an aircraft on an intersecting runway, but I'm pretty sure he's going to pull up and go around, so I won't worry about him."
- Wouldn't the pilot of AC446 be trying to exit on taxiway E anyway, which is prior to the rwy 32 intersection, instead of continuing across 32 and then backtracking?
- The following statement: "the Dash came along crossing runway 32" makes no sense at all. If the Dash was on an approach to (and, presumably, aligned with) runway 32, how did it suddenly change its direction to "cross" rwy 32? Did they mean to say "crossing runway 25"?