Indeed. How could anyone mistake the taxiway as the runway. It's actually *more* obvious at night.
I have over 14000 hrs flying various aircraft... How the H3ll do land on a taxiway at night... Taxiways have BLUE lights, and runways have WHITE lights,, real amateur......
Taxiways don’t have those big bright approach lights, either.
ummm... I did. Once. Out west, unfamiliar with the airport, after hours, tower closed, not able to get runway lights on.
Worked fine, although I'm single-engine-land, and this story is about a large airliner.
Will be interesting to hear more about this.
Seems it would be impossible to line up wrong, hearing your explanation of the lighting.
What was going on with this guy?
Thank you for comment. There is in fact, a Freeper knowledgeable and experienced in every subject. I fly as a passenger 10 times a year and I never bothered to look up blue versus white light designations.
What I did learn not long ago by talking to a pilot was the way in which a computer balances the aircraft load and makes all the necessary adjustments based on weight and distribution. My father in law was a B17 pilot and captain of the ship before he was 21. This was in 1945 and they were running short of pilots to make the bomb runs over Germany.
In addition to him missing the ALS, the TDZ lighting, the centerline lighting, the VASI, the fact that his localizer was deflected, etc etc etc
Harrison Ford the pilot?
Or Foster Brooks perhaps?
I am not a pilot but I now SFO very well having flown in and out of it hundreds of times. This Canadian pilot must of had some kind of impairment to mistake that TW for a runway. It is plain as day, clearly lit and marked.
He must have been sick that day in Airbus push button flight school!
Indeed. How could anyone mistake the taxiway as the runway. It's actually *more* obvious at night.
Seems to me as if air traffic control would be just as culpable, I doubt the pilot just unilaterally decided where he was going to land at SFO.