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Aircraft alert on runway at Washington National Airport, Arlington County VA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/14/2025 08:50 AM

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), 2401 Smith Blvd, Arlington, VA 22202

An aircraft triggered an alert on runway 30 at Washington National Airport. Fire and rescue units responded promptly. The plane landed safely without any problems. The command was ended and all units were cleared.

Audio|Source: Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) Public Safety

03:15

Transcript:

00:00

News responding to runway 30, aircraft is the next to land.

00:08

David V, you're direct.

00:11

I'm direct, I'm just getting through Gate 118 now.

00:15

Copy 115.

00:21

Phone 321 is on the scene.

00:25

From 321 on scene at 1150.

00:33

Airprofire units are on scenes standby for runway 30.

00:37

1030 to establish runway 30 command.

00:45

Air profile okay,

00:47

units will in scenes.

00:49

Italian 2 Establish a command at 1153.

01:00

2.42 are you clear your traffic stop?

01:05

Negative.

01:06

History remote pull them out.

01:07

Now getting signatures.

01:11

Copy 1153.

01:15

Number 503.

01:17

Number 50, Tristan 1-4 direction.

01:21

Copy.

01:30

Wow, that's one.

01:33

Go ahead.

01:35

And normal landing, uh, exiting Quebec One, uh, do you need the tail number?

01:41

Yeah, I got it.

01:43

Good.

01:48

You do 12.

01:52

12.

01:54

Are you in a vehicle?

01:57

I am.

01:58

Are you unseen?

02:01

I'm not.

02:04

I'm not seen.

02:06

I look like a fire is evaluating.

02:09

Let it now.

02:12

Copy-five.

02:18

242 vacuum service.

02:22

1185. 155.

02:27

Airport fire from Runways already command.

02:32

Command.

02:35

Aircraft land without incident, no further issues, no further requests from fire.

02:42

Complais all units and services are available in terminate command.

02:48

The command button.

02:51

Units, we're going to return the runway.

02:59

Those are clear the runway.

03:03

Airfire okay aircraft landed no further issues no further fire required terminate commands terminated at 1157 all units and service

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Location mentioned:

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), 2401 Smith Blvd, Arlington, VA 22202

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