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A flight instructor reported that he became distracted by his student's question during taxi and crossed onto an active runway as an air carrier began a takeoff roll.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1324020 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201601 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Amateur/Home Built/Experimental |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Taxi |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Aircraft 2 | |
| Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
| Flight Phase | Takeoff |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Instructor Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Commercial |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 175 Flight Crew Total 700 Flight Crew Type 200 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Conflict Ground Conflict Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Clearance Ground Incursion Runway |
| Miss Distance | Horizontal 2500 |
Narrative:
On the landing rollout; ATC (tower) gave me a clearance to exit at a specific intersection; hold short of the parallel runway; and stay on that frequency. My student was asking a question during the busy radio exchanges. I acknowledged the instruction but thought I had heard the instruction to taxi across the parallel runway. So I went ahead and taxied across. However the tower had cleared an aircraft (a commercial airliner) to takeoff on that runway (on another frequency- that airport uses different frequencies for different runways). I saw the airplane holding and taxied across. However; he had been cleared and was beginning his takeoff roll. I was across the runway before the aircraft taking off reached my position but it was too close. The lesson here is not to let a student distract you with a question during high work-load phases of a training flight. He was a new student and did not know to not ask questions then.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A flight instructor reported that he became distracted by his student's question during taxi and crossed onto an active runway as an air carrier began a takeoff roll.
Narrative: On the landing rollout; ATC (tower) gave me a clearance to Exit at a specific intersection; hold short of the parallel runway; and stay on that frequency. My student was asking a question during the busy radio exchanges. I acknowledged the instruction but thought I had heard the instruction to taxi across the parallel runway. So I went ahead and taxied across. However the tower had cleared an aircraft (a commercial airliner) to takeoff on that runway (on another frequency- that airport uses different frequencies for different runways). I saw the airplane holding and taxied across. However; he had been cleared and was beginning his takeoff roll. I was across the runway before the aircraft taking off reached my position but it was too close. The lesson here is not to let a student distract you with a question during high work-load phases of a training flight. He was a new student and did not know to not ask questions then.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.