Airports get new tech to prevent off-runway landings

Exclusive: New software that warns air traffic controllers if an inbound aircraft may be lining up to land on a taxiway rather than a runway has been installed at 43 major airports nationwide.

A plane prepares to take off from Denver International Airport on Sept. 7, 2016. Photo: Robert Alexander/Getty Images

New software that warns air traffic controllers if an inbound aircraft may be lining up to land on a taxiway rather than a runway has been installed at 43 major airports nationwide, the Federal Aviation Administration tells Axios.Landing on a taxiway — essentially roads for aircraft that connect runways with terminals — can be a major safety hazard.

There were 1,641 so-called "wrong surface events" between October 2016 and the end of last year, the FAA says — though the vast majority involved general aviation aircraft, not commercial planes.The software, called ASDE-X Taxiway Arrival Prediction , uses radar and other sensors to automatically tell if a plane appears to be lining up to land on a taxiway, rather than a runway.

In such an event, the software alerts controllers to the potential problem. They can then communicate the issue to the incoming pilots.ATAP has been installed at Boston Logan International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Chicago O'Hare International Airport and more. It has "helped prevent more than 50 wrong-surface taxiway landings since its first implementation at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in 2018," the FAA said in a

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