Beechjet 400
Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 60; Flight Crew Total 9500; Flight Crew Type 825
Communication Breakdown; Distraction; Other / Unknown; Situational Awareness; Workload
Conflict Ground Conflict; Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Incursion Runway
Flight Crew Overcame Equipment Problem; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors
It was just after Tower closed for the night; we had previously received a clearance from Tower. By the time our passengers were boarded it was after the Tower closed; so we proceeded to taxi to Runway X for departure since that is what the Tower had been using. On the taxi out we contacted Approach to get our IFR release. When we got our release the Second in Command didn't read back our void time to approach so I instructed him that was the correct to procedure to do so. I had started taxing on to runway looking for traffic looking both directions for traffic as doing so. Once on the runway I realized another aircraft was landing on the other runway. In the short time of us monitoring CTAF we had not heard a traffic call from the other aircraft and we had not made a reporting call yet. The lights of the airplane must of had blended into the background of the city lights. I was unable to vacate the runway before the other aircraft did a go around from the opposite end of the runway.
BE-40 Captain reported a Critical ground conflict after an inadvertent runway incursion resulting in a opposite direction landing aircraft to executed a go-around. Airport Tower had recently closed and flight crew had only monitored CTAF for a short time and had not heard any position radio reports or made any position reports.