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Video shows how close Air Canada flight came to landing on taxiing planes
(CNN)Newly released video shows just how close an Air Canada Airbus A320 came to mistakenly landing on a crowded taxiway at San Francisco International Airport last year. In the nighttime video, the Air Canada plane appears to be on a collision course with aircraft that were waiting on the taxiway, when air traffic controllers urgently demanded the pilots abort the landing. (www.cnn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
You can’t get much closer without actually having a collision. The passengers of the aircraft on the taxiway must have felt and heard the Air Canada flight loud and clear.
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Might wanna read the article...
"The investigation has revealed that the flight crew of the Air Canada flight informed the NTSB that there was confusion over the runway configuration and landing lights at SFO"
"The Air Canada captain has more than 20,000 flight hours and almost 4,800 as a captain of an Airbus A320. The first officer has 10,000 flight hours, according to the NTSB."
"The investigation has revealed that the flight crew of the Air Canada flight informed the NTSB that there was confusion over the runway configuration and landing lights at SFO"
"The Air Canada captain has more than 20,000 flight hours and almost 4,800 as a captain of an Airbus A320. The first officer has 10,000 flight hours, according to the NTSB."
True, the Air Canada crew raised the question due to their not backing up the visual approach with the localizer on 28L once they were cleared for the visual. The amount of flight hours of either the captain or first officer does not preclude a procedural mistake on their part. Might want to read standard procedures for visual approaches.
The hours were posted in regards to the snide "new pilots these days" crap he posted. Clearly the Captain started out in the "good ole days".
When you quote an article you should probably read it and then reread it as backing up a visual approach to 28R by using the 28L localizer which was probably shut off due to the runway being closed is not a procedure used. However, flying the Quiet Bridge Visual 28R and having the ILS tuned for 28R on the PNF side may have served some purpose, unless against SOP’s.
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They were actually flying the FMS Bridge Visual 28R which a procedure used by most major operators into SFO.