United B738 and Expressjet E145 at Newark on Apr 24th 2014, near collision close to ground
Last Update: May 21, 2014 / 14:41:22 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Apr 24, 2014
Classification
Incident
Cause
Near collision
Airline
United
Flight number
UA-1243
Departure
San Francisco, United States
Destination
Newark, United States
Aircraft Registration
N77520
Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800
ICAO Type Designator
B738
An Expressjet Embraer ERJ-145 on behalf of United, registration N11176 performing flight EV-4100/UA-4100 from Newark,NJ to Memphis,TN (USA), was rotating for takeoff from runway 04R at the same time.
At that point tower instructed UA-1243 to go around and instructed EV-4100 to maintain visual separation to the traffic to their right. The Embraer crew stopped the climb close to ground reporting they "took the nose down" and "he is real close" restating upon hand off to departure "it was really close".
The Boeing positioned for another approach and landed safely at Newark about 11 minutes later. The Embraer reached Memphis without further incident for a safe landing there, too.
The FAA opened an investigation into the possible loss of separation erroneously stating flight UA-29 was involved.
On Apr 25th 2014 the NTSB opened their investigation into the loss of separation incident at Newark.
On May 21st 2014 the NTSB reported that according to FAA radar data the minimum separation between the aircraft was 400 feet vertical and 0.03nm laterally.
The local controller had two aircraft cleared to land on runway 29, a Boeing 717 was about 3nm ahead of the Boeing 737-800. While the Boeing 717 was on short final the controller instructed the Embraer to line up runway 04R and wait. After the Boeing 717 had crossed runway 04R, the Boeing 737-800 being 3nm before touchdown, the controller cleared the Embraer for takeoff. The Embraer however did not commence the takeoff roll until the Boeing 737-800 was about 1nm out. The controller recognized that the separation was insufficient and instructed the Boeing to go around and the Embraer to maintain visual separation. The NTSB stated: "The ERJ145 pilot responded that he was going to keep the aircraft's nose down. The B737 overflew the ERJ145 at the intersection of runways 29/4R."
Metars:
KEWR 242051Z 33023KT 10SM FEW250 17/M13 A2988 RMK AO2 SLP119 T01721133 56003 $
KEWR 241951Z 34022KT 10SM FEW250 17/M12 A2988 RMK AO2 SLP119 T01671122 $
KEWR 241851Z 34024KT 10SM FEW250 17/M11 A2988 RMK AO2 SLP118 T01721111 $
KEWR 241751Z 34022KT 10SM FEW250 16/M12 A2989 RMK AO2 SLP122 T01611117 10161 20072 58013 $
KEWR 241651Z 34023KT 10SM SCT250 16/M11 A2991 RMK AO2 SLP127 T01561111 $
Aircraft Registration Data
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Apr 24, 2014
Classification
Incident
Cause
Near collision
Airline
United
Flight number
UA-1243
Departure
San Francisco, United States
Destination
Newark, United States
Aircraft Registration
N77520
Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800
ICAO Type Designator
B738
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