Cancelled take off Clearance - JFK

[tarapoto]

I'm not sure what just happened I was just listening on JFK Tower and around 1050-1055z the controller shouted at Air China to cancel takeoff clearance, then proceeded to say all traffic is stopped. I'm not sure what happened, Air China rejected takeoff and returned to the ramp with hot brakes and someone started talking about the incident and the controller said "No need to talk about it on the air, we can all see what's going on here" and then he chuckled. I don't know how to pull up the audio, but if anyone is interested the rejected takeoff was at 1054z I believe. Happy listening

PS. I think it was Air China, the pilot had an Asian accent

[Lrusso]

It was Lufthansa 411 - an Airbus A340

[tarapoto]

Ah ok, thanks. Is this like a daily occurence at JFK?

How long does it take for the audio archive to come up? Half an hour?

[Lrusso]

def not a normal occurrence seemed like a very serious incident.

Not sure on the archives. 

[cstefano]

Feeds are archived in half-hour intervals; the most recent interval usually shows up in the archive a few minutes after the hour/half hour.

[squircle]

I just listened from 2230-2300Z and found bits of the conversation; I edited them together the best I could. Nobody really makes it clear as to what happened (although I am pretty curious!).

[Lrusso]

Seemed like DLH took off without clearance?

or someone entered the runway I don't quite understand the Short career line that JFK controller has been there for quite awhile so I don't think the controller made a mistake.

[squircle]

I don't quite understand the Short career line

There wasn't any audible takeoff clearance in the archive, but I should clarify a bit more with that comment. That comment was made by a VRD pilot who had just landed and (presumably) had seen whatever went on with the DLH aircraft.

[Dngnkeeper]

At 0:49 someone says "those two were coming together". Possible runway incursion or some type of imminent collision?

Good catch by the controller and pushing the all stop.

[Lrusso]

At 0:49 someone says "those two were coming together". Possible runway incursion or some type of imminent collision?

Good catch by the controller and pushing the all stop.

Maybe a truck or something entered the runway?

[Lrusso]

incident aircraft is taking off now.

[stingray0]

Here's how I got:

Lufthansa 411 (A340-600)
EgyptAir 986 (777-300)

MSR cleared to taxi from Terminal 4, Hotel to 22R via left Bravo (hold short Delta). He seems to have gone to far, missed the turn onto Bravo and/or mistook 22R for Bravo which he almost entered.
Meanwhile take-off clearence for a flight from 31L and following DLH form 22R. The actuall clearence of DLH is not audible due to Local #2 talking to VFR traffic on 125.25.
Local #1 shouting "cancel take-off clearence"... MSR had to enter 22R to the right to clear the situation afterwards (on ground frequency). Since DLH cleared 22R at Hotel he must have come to a stop between Golf and Hotel, MSR could only go right on 22R.

Definitely runway incursion, very near miss...

DLH has been delayed up to now (0035z almost two hours for refueling and hot brakes). MSR 986 left about an hour prior to that.

[Lrusso]

Here's how I got:

Lufthansa 411 (A340-600)
EgyptAir 986 (777-300)

MSR cleared to taxi from Terminal 4, Hotel to 22R via left Bravo (hold short Delta). He seems to have gone to far, missed the turn onto Bravo and/or mistook 22R for Bravo which he almost entered.
Meanwhile take-off clearence for a flight from 31L and following DLH form 22R. The actuall clearence of DLH is not audible due to Local #2 talking to VFR traffic on 125.25.
Local #1 shouting "cancel take-off clearence"... MSR had to enter 22R to the right to clear the situation afterwards (on ground frequency). Since DLH cleared 22R at Hotel he must have come to a stop between Golf and Hotel, MSR could only go right on 22R.

Definitely runway incursion, very near miss...

DLH has been delayed up to now (0035z almost two hours for refueling and hot brakes). MSR 986 left about an hour prior to that.

Makes sense thats why Egypt Air on the ground frequency got a 718 phone number to call upon landing in CAIRO.

[graysono]

Good old AvHerald with more ...

A Lufthansa Airbus A340-600, registration D-AIHM performing flight LH-411 from New York JFK,NY (USA) to Munich (Germany), was cleared for takeoff from JFK's runway 22R at approximately 18:52L (22:52Z), the next aircraft in sequence had been cleared to line up runway 22R, when the tower controller highy agitated called "CANCEL TAKEOFF CLEARANCE" at approximately 18:53L, Lufthansa 411 reported rejecting takeoff. The airplane slowed safely from high speed. Another crew on frequency commented that was very close. The Airbus A340 vacated the runway at taxiway H. The crew reported hot brakes and had the brakes checked out by emergency services.

At the same time an Egyptair Boeing 777-300, registration SU-GDR performing flight MS-986 from New York JFK,NY (USA) to Cairo (Egypt), was in contact with ground control taxiing for departure out of terminal 4 and had been instructed to turn left onto taxiway B hold short of D. The crew however missed the turn onto taxiway B and instead turned onto runway 22R at taxiway J. Subsequently ground control calmly instructed the aircraft to turn back onto J and turn right onto B, then changed plan and had the airplane taxi up runway 04R turn onto taxiway H and join taxiway B.

The Lufthansa A340 was able to depart again about 2 hours later and reached Munich with a delay of 1:45 hours. The Egyptair B777 departed New York about 75 minutes later and reached Cairo with a delay of 40 minutes.

[Comfirm31L]

It sounds to me DLH stopped in the vicinity of F, they say we taxi down the runway and exit at G. They came off at H after they decided to go back to the ramp. Also MSR came out onto 22R at H, not J.