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Runway Incursion Incidents

Volume 264: debated on Monday 16 October 1995

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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) runway incursion incidents and (b) incidents of runway overshoots there have been at Heathrow and Gatwick airports in each year since 1985. [36685]

The number of runway incursion incidents which occurred at Heathrow and Gatwick airports in the years since 1985 are as follows:

YearHeathrowGatwick
198563
198673
198720
198882
1989132
199000
199150
199230
199321
199431
Statistics for runway overshoots for the whole of the period requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However figures are available for 1994 when there were 406 runway overshoots at Heathrow airport and 332 at Gatwick.