모두
← Back to Squawk list
SFO close-call: Air Canada pilot was not using guidance instruments, source says
SAN FRANCISCO The wayward Air Canada pilot who nearly landed on a crowded San Francisco International Airport taxiway earlier this month did not activate his computer guidance system that would have helped guide his airplane onto the appropriate runway and not dozens of feet from a catastrophe, according to a source familiar with the federal investigation. (www.latimes.com) 기타...
Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Think that between the two of them neither had enough brains to be in charge of a garbage truck.
When you see taxi lights off of several airplanes in a row you would normally know that area was occupied. Also the light color and array should have been a tip off.
You know something like passing cars at night on a two lane road, if there are headlights in that lane kind of means its occupied. Light AC don't have any super aids like they have could be they are over reliant on computers.
When you see taxi lights off of several airplanes in a row you would normally know that area was occupied. Also the light color and array should have been a tip off.
You know something like passing cars at night on a two lane road, if there are headlights in that lane kind of means its occupied. Light AC don't have any super aids like they have could be they are over reliant on computers.
Now that you mention it, a line of taxi lights in a line facing you would look a lot like... a line of white lights. That's probably why they were confused and also why they asked about it.
Ahh, screw if. Burn them anyway because you were there.
Ahh, screw if. Burn them anyway because you were there.
SFO seems to be a place where professional pilots have a lot of trouble flying a visual approach. Maybe it's the salt air?
In all fairness they had never landed on pavement before. It all looked the same.
CVR transcript released:
Cap: It's not all white like home, we'll just put her down over there.
FO: You're pretty low eh?
Cap: I'm a boot 200 meters, here, hold my beer laddie
CVR transcript released:
Cap: It's not all white like home, we'll just put her down over there.
FO: You're pretty low eh?
Cap: I'm a boot 200 meters, here, hold my beer laddie
{Ross] Aimer has also said that based on radio traffic and sources, only one SFO air traffic controller was working the ground and tower frequencies the night of the close-call. Right before the controller called for Air Canada to "go around," he had been dealing with another facility, investigators have reported.
A former longtime SFO air traffic controller, Mark Nelson, said at that time of day and with that type of weather, there would typically be two air traffic controllers on duty, but it is possible one controller was handling all those duties.
I wonder how the ATC staffing would be if spun off to private industry.
Would there be 3, 2, 1 or remote staffing at that time of night at SFO?