Posted on 10/24/2017 2:13:31 PM PDT by DFG
The Federal Aviation Authority is investigating why an Air Canada plane ignored repeated orders by an air traffic controller at San Francisco International Airport to abort a landing over the weekend. Air Canada flight 781 from Montreal was given initial clearance to land but the air traffic controller then gave six orders to 'go around' and abort its landing because it believed another plane may still have been on the runway. The pilot landed the plane anyway.
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Maybe they refused because the controller wasn’t speaking French.
The solution would be to ban all Air Canada flights to the US until all of the planes have had a full maintenance routine, and all pilots have been re-certified.
I am too. I knew you were kidding. I wasn’t trying to lecture. Just state a fact so people might pick up a factoid if they didn’t know!
My main airports APF and I69.
Canadian muslim pilots?
It sounds to me like the tower made a terrible error and panicked when it appeared that they couldn't undo it.
Actually, some French speaking Quebecois get a bit touchy about being addressed in English. Also, the world over, in all languages, if one doesn’t want to comply with instructions given over the radio, ‘garbled transmission’ is sometimes blamed for lack of compliance.
Back when commercial airlines were ferrying troops to Vietnam, an airliner was flying south on final approach to DaNang Air Force Base. The air traffic controller, who was probably a young enlisted man, was trying to launch two Phantoms to the north on an urgent Close Air Support mission.
To get the airliner out of the way, the controller told him, “Give me a Right 360 degree turn now”.
The airline pilot responded, “i’ll have you know it costs my airline $200 every time we make a 180 degree turn”.
The controller shot right back at him, “Then give me $400 worth to the right, immediately!”
In this instance, who knows. It may have been genuine comm problems.
Tower did use the light gun.
And LOL on that turn.
Maybe when they were given clearance to land they prematurely switched their radios from approach to ground control?
Seems reasonable to me - if they won’t follow the rules and legal instructions given them, thus jeopardizing the life, health, and property involved - they should be stopped. It would hit them in the pocketbook so quickly, they would either go bankrupt or comply post-haste
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