“Wi Tu Lo,”
“Ho Lee Fuk,”
“Bang Ding Ow.”
Perhaps the taxiway “identified” as a runway. Have you not taken the taxiway’s feelings into account?
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......
I’ve often wondered why this doesn’t happen more often.
From the Harrison Ford Flight School.
Ask Han Solo how this works... Almost crashed into a passenger plane on the taxi-way a couple months back, all he got was a warning. I guess it pays to be a very rich Hollywood idiot.
A few months ago, two Canadian Air Force fighter jets were diverted from Tyndall AFB because of some emergency. They were told to land at the Northwest Florida Beaches commercial airport.
They instead started to land at the deserted and overgrown old Panama City airport. They got to around 6 feet elevation before air traffic control corrected them.
Lived in San Francisco for years, flew in and out of SFO, one time coming back from Paris they said we were being diverted to San Jose due to fog, lots of groans, but as we came in I said, good, we are going to SFO, the pilot said San Jose, prepare to land, welcome to San Jose, ....er um it appears we have landed in SFO.
Not saying this is anything other than a very serious incident, but the chances that the Air Canada plane actually would have hit any of the planes on the taxiway may be very small, even if he had come in a lot closer. (NOT saying I would ever want to have been on any of those planes at that moment).... he would have seen the planes more clearly as he got closer, and although reaction times would have been short he still could have powered up to go around....... or landed beyond the 4 waiting planes..... OF COURSE no one would ever want anyone to have to try their luck in such scenarios, but I doubt it’s any automatic “biggest airline disaster in history scenario”..... still, much too close a call !!!!
I think the pilot in command of the aircraft in question did the right thing in notifying the controller of his concerns. I’m guessing the controller called “go around” sooner than the pilot did. Actually, the pilot could have started the “go around” before announcing it. Not the best practice. I certainly would have been been ready to firewall the throttles! Just a subtle change of hand position.
Harrison Ford flying for Air Canada now?
Snoop “Soul Plane” Dogg at the controls.
A go-around is not an ‘unusual’ event.
Dam this is bad... at the very least the Air Canada pilots career is done.... how the hell do you line up on the taxiway and not the runway.. they have a line of light point right down the center-line of the runway
This is irresponsible journalism as usual. In no way was this a near miss. The landing pilot saw the aircraft on the ground. There was no way he was going to land on them.
Apparently he didn’t ask Victor what his vector was.
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