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| Date: | Friday 13 January 2023 |
| Time: | 20:44 |
| Type: |  Boeing 777-223ER |
| Owner/operator: | American Airlines |
| Registration: | N754AN |
| MSN: | 30262/345 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2001 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 149 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Incident |
| Location: | New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Taxi |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK) |
| London-Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On January 13, 2023, about 2044 local time, American Airlines flight AA106, a Boeing 777-200, crossed runway 4L, without air traffic control (ATC) clearance, at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Queens, New York causing Delta Air Lines flight DL1943, a Boeing 737-900ER, to abort its takeoff on runway 4L. Of the 6 crew and 153 passengers on DAL 1943, and 12 crew and 137 passengers on AA106, there were no injuries. There was no damage to either aircraft.
AA 106 was instructed to taxi from the ramp to Runway 4L via taxiway B and hold short of taxiway K. As the aircraft left the ramp, the ground controller cleared AA 106 to cross runway 31L at taxiway K. Upon reaching the Taxiway B/Taxiway K intersection, AA 106 continued straight to taxiway J crossing runway 4L without ATC clearance. At the time AA106 entered on runway 4L at taxiway J, DAL 1943 had begun its takeoff roll increasing speed through 80 knots, and was abeam taxiway K3, about 2700 feet from the taxiway J intersection.
The ASDE-X alerted the JFK ATC tower to the conflict and the tower controller issued a takeoff cancellation to DAL 1943. The DAL 1943 crew aborted takeoff at about 100 knots and came to stop about 500 feet short of taxiway J. The closest point between the two aircraft was about 1400 feet and occurred as DAL 1943 decelerated past taxiway K4 and AA106 exited the runway at taxiway J.
Probable Cause
The NTSB determines that the probable cause of this incident was the American Airlines flight 106 (AAL106) crew’s surface navigation error due to distractions caused by their performance of concurrent operational tasks during taxi, which resulted in a loss of situational awareness. Contributing to the incident was the air traffic control tower team’s nondetection of the AAL106 crew’s deviation from taxi instructions while performing concurrent operational
tasks; the timing of the runway status light system, which activated too late to prevent the AAL106 crew from crossing the runway hold short line; and American Airlines’ lack of adequate risk controls to prevent concurrent flight crew tasks from leading to distraction, loss of situational awareness, and deviation from an authorized taxi clearance. Reducing the severity of the incident, and likely preventing an accident, was the activation of the ASDE-X warning in the air traffic control tower and the local controller’s prompt cancellation of DAL1943’s takeoff clearance.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/15/1149330980/jfk-delta-american-airlines-near-miss-faa-investigation
NTSB
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/aa106#2ed8914a
https://flightaware.com/resources/airport/JFK/APD/AIRPORT+DIAGRAM/pdf
Location
Media:
JFK Airport New York - Friday the 13th, 2023. American Airlines Boeing 777 (AAL106) going to London crosses the wrong runway while taxiing while a Delta Airlines Boeing 737 (DAL1943) is departing for Santo Domingo on the same runway stopping their takeoff avoiding a disaster. ? pic.twitter.com/vhzXI8zD7M
— Thenewarea51 (@thenewarea51) January 15, 2023
Doesn’t look pretty. pic.twitter.com/ctFBa3rqlk
— Will Coleman (@WColeman84) January 14, 2023
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-Jun-2024 19:32 | harro | Updated [Other fatalities, Narrative, Accident report] |
| 21-Jun-2024 14:24 | ASN | Updated [Accident report] |
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