Aircraft

Summary

On 27 April 2012 at about 18:25 local time, a an aircraft of an unrecorded type was involved in an incident near Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The number of people on board was not recorded. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

27 April 2012 at 18:25

Classification

Incident

Location

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Coordinates

36.0792, -115.1396

Aircraft

Not recorded

Registration

Not recorded

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 121: Air Carrier

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Boston → Las Vegas

Aircraft damage

Not recorded

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

OPS12IA535

Injuries not recorded.

Federal Aviation Administration procedures that do not ensure separation in the event of a go-around during simultaneous independent runway operations on runways that do not physically intersect but whose flight paths intersect.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The flight crew of an Airbus A320, operated by an air carrier, was conducting a visual approach to runway 25L while a Learjet 60 (LR60) was simultaneously cleared for takeoff from runway 19L. The pilot of the A320 elected to execute a go-around and came into hazardous proximity with the LR60 as it departed runway 19L. After the pilot of the A320 executed the go-around, neither local controller was able to provide control instructions to separate the two aircraft. The closest proximity of the two aircraft was approximately 0.3 nautical miles laterally and 100 feet vertically. The two aircraft were being controlled by different tower controllers, who were simultaneously routing aircraft to land on runway 25L and to depart from runway 19L--nonintersecting, converging runways whose flight paths intersect. This procedure was not prohibited by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and there were no FAA-prescribed separation minima or procedures for air traffic controllers to follow when conducting simultaneous independent converging runway operations in the event a pilot elected to execute a go-around. This resulted in the aircraft going around coming into close proximity with the departure aircraft where the flight paths intersected.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.