What the profile screens for
Geospatial and aircraft-state data indicate entry onto a runway or protected area from an unexpected route or position.
Why it matters
FDM cannot determine an ATC clearance, but it can help identify surface movements that merit correlation with reports and surveillance data.
Build the event around relationships—not one number.
Define the operating context
Identify the taxi state, aircraft configuration, location, and any required external data before applying logic.
Screen the signal relationship
Use validated combinations of latitude, longitude, heading; avoid treating one isolated value as the whole event.
Confirm it is a genuine event
Check polarity, units, source, recording rate, dropouts, air/ground logic, persistence, and false-positive mechanisms.
Connect data to the safety question
Review procedures, reports, weather, airport and traffic context, exposure, recurrence, and the strength of the related barriers.
Recorded signals that may help explain the event.
Questions before conclusions
- Q1
Are latitude, longitude, heading valid, correctly decoded, time-aligned, and sampled well enough for this event?
- Q2
What changed immediately before, during, and after the runway-entry position anomaly indication?
- Q3
How do aircraft configuration, weather, airport geometry, automation state, and crew reports change the interpretation?
- Q4
Which current flight manual, SOP, maintenance, or operator event definition controls the final conclusion?
Safety topics that broaden the event review.
Runway incursion
Unauthorized or incorrect presence of an aircraft, vehicle, or person on a runway protected area, including the conditions that weaken conflict detection and recovery.
Open topic profile ↗SAT-014 · Approach & landingCircling approach
Low-altitude maneuvering from an instrument procedure to another runway, with attention to protected area, visibility, bank, descent, and stabilization.
Open topic profile ↗SAT-023 · Takeoff & departureIntersection takeoff
Takeoff from an intermediate runway entry, with explicit validation of declared distances, performance data, position, and remaining margin.
Open topic profile ↗Runway Excursion
Explore overruns and veer-offs as the combined result of approach energy, runway condition, touchdown, deceleration, and directional control.
Open topic brief ↗Flight OperationsRejected Takeoff
Understand the time-critical stop decision through speed, failure recognition, runway remaining, braking, spoilers, and reverse thrust.
Open topic brief ↗12 useful starting points
Terminology and topic relationships select these links; the publisher source remains authoritative.
SAFO 11004 — Runway Incursion Prevention Actions
Official U.S. Federal Aviation Administration material indexed for approach and landing and runway safety. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceAnnual Safety Review 2025
EASA's review uses occurrence and accident information to describe performance across aviation domains and to support the European safety-risk-management process.
Open official sourceStatistical Summary of Commercial Jet Airplane Accidents, 1959–2024
Boeing's 56th annual statistical summary organizes commercial-jet accident data using stated definitions and the CAST/ICAO occurrence taxonomy.
Open official sourceIATA Annual Safety Report — 2024
IATA's 61st annual report provides an interactive, method-defined view of commercial aviation accident performance and contributing-factor classifications.
Open official sourceAC 91-79B — Aircraft Landing Performance and Runway Excursion Mitigation
This FAA circular brings together landing-performance planning, time-of-arrival assessment, RCAM information, and operational practices for reducing runway-excursion risk.
Open official sourceSAFO 18009 — SAFO 18009, Risk of Runway Number Transposition Leading to a possible "Runway Overrun" During Takeoff at San Francisco International Airport ( SFO )
Official U.S. Federal Aviation Administration material indexed for approach and landing and takeoff. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceSAFO 08003 — Guidance Material for Contaminated Runway Landing Operations
Official U.S. Federal Aviation Administration material indexed for approach and landing and runway safety. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceSAFO 06010 — Preventing accidents following rejected takeoff ( RTO ): Pilot Guide
Official U.S. Federal Aviation Administration material indexed for takeoff. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceA320 – Runway overrun
Official Airbus Safety First material indexed for approach and landing and runway safety. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceFurther Preventing Runway Overrun
Official Airbus Safety First material indexed for approach and landing and runway safety. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceIs it a Loss of Braking?
Official Airbus Safety First material indexed for runway safety. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceLateral runway excursions upon landing
Official Airbus Safety First material indexed for approach and landing and runway safety. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
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