Small Aircraft
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 26; Flight Crew Total 409; Flight Crew Type 196
Distraction; Situational Awareness; Communication Breakdown; Confusion
Conflict Ground Conflict; Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Incursion Runway
General None Reported / Taken
Airport; Human Factors; Procedure
While doing a training flight at night a maintenance vehicle entered the runway while aircraft were actively doing touch and goes and stop and goes. After landing with my student the vehicle announced that he was taking the runway while we were still stopped on the runway itself. I notified over the radio that I was stopped on the runway and the vehicle continued. Then another student from the same flight school was forced to do a go around because the vehicle entered the runway while he was on final. An attempt to contact the airport manager was made but they did not try to reach out. This could have ended very differently but the maintenance vehicle made a very unsafe situation.
A Flight Instructor reported a vehicle entered the active runway at a non towered airport without communicating while their aircraft was stopped on the runway. Another aircraft had to go around due to the vehicle on the runway.