Close call as plane nearly lands on taxiing planes - TomoNews
- 6 years ago
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — A newly released video shows just how close an Air Canada flight got to other jets as it was making a landing at SFO back in July of 2017.
In the surveillance video released by National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday, Air Canada's Airbus A-320 descended just minutes before midnight on July 7 last year.
Although the plane was apparently cleared to land on runway 28L, but it actually lined up to land on a taxiway where several planes full of passengers were waiting to take off.
The airbus immediately pulled up before landing on the plane-packed taxiway.
The Air Canada crew told the NTSB that something didn't look right on the runway as they prepared to land so they opted to go-around.
The Associated Press reported that the FAA said in a report that three of the five close-calls involving aircraft reported in the past 16 months at SFO were caused by pilots.
The NTSB also revealed that a system designed to monitor ground traffic at SFO lost the inbound Air Canada aircraft for about 12 seconds, it came back to the system when the plane overflew the first waiting plane on the taxiway.
In the surveillance video released by National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday, Air Canada's Airbus A-320 descended just minutes before midnight on July 7 last year.
Although the plane was apparently cleared to land on runway 28L, but it actually lined up to land on a taxiway where several planes full of passengers were waiting to take off.
The airbus immediately pulled up before landing on the plane-packed taxiway.
The Air Canada crew told the NTSB that something didn't look right on the runway as they prepared to land so they opted to go-around.
The Associated Press reported that the FAA said in a report that three of the five close-calls involving aircraft reported in the past 16 months at SFO were caused by pilots.
The NTSB also revealed that a system designed to monitor ground traffic at SFO lost the inbound Air Canada aircraft for about 12 seconds, it came back to the system when the plane overflew the first waiting plane on the taxiway.