NTSB - OPS07IA007A Runway Incursion B738 / CRJ1, New York La Guardia USA 5 July 2007
NTSB - OPS07IA007A Runway Incursion B738 / CRJ1, New York La Guardia USA 5 July 2007
On 5 July 2007, in daylight and good visibility, a Comair CRJ100 on an outbound scheduled service flight was cleared by a GND Controller to taxi across active runway 22 on which a Delta AL Boeing 737-800 also operating a scheduled service flight had already been cleared to land by the (TWR) local controller. The crossing to be made did not allow the CRJ100 crew to see up the runway towards the landing threshold until they had almost completed the crossing. When they did see the by then landed B738 coming towards them, they immediately increased thrust on the single operating engine to accelerate clear. The FAA account of the incident classified the incursion at low risk with a 3200 ft minimum separation between the two aircraft.






