Runway safety-related events, which the International Civil Aviation Organization has identified as one of three high-risk accident occurrence categories, are the focus of numerous government and industry mitigation efforts, but occurrences continue to vex aviation stakeholders across different industry sectors, according to presenters at two recent Flight Safety Foundation events and to data available from a variety of sources.
The most common types of runway-related events are runway incursions and excursions. In its online Runway Excursions Support Tool, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) uses the Civil Air Navigation Services Organization (CANSO) definition of an excursion: an event in which an aircraft veers off or overruns the runway surface during either takeoff or landing. FAA says that runway excursions lead to more runway accidents than all other causes combined.
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) uses a common European Risk Classification Sche…
