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Air Canada Flight 759 — Wikipedia (en)

Source: Wikipedia (en)
Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_759
License (as archived): CC-BY-SA-4.0
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Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_759. Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

On July 7, 2017, an Airbus A320 operating as Air Canada Flight 759 was nearly involved in an accident at San Francisco International Airport in San Mateo County, California, United States. The flight, which originated at Toronto Pearson International Airport, had been cleared by air traffic control to land on runway 28R and was on final approach to land on that runway; however, instead of lining up with the runway, the aircraft had lined up with the parallel taxiway, on which four fully loaded and fuelled passenger airplanes were stopped awaiting takeoff clearance. The flight crew initiated a go-around prior to landing, after which it landed on 28R without further incident. The aircraft on the taxiway departed for their intended destinations without further incident. The subsequent investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the Air Canada airplane descended to 59 feet (18 m) above the ground before it began its climb, and that it missed colliding with one of the aircraft on the taxiway by 14 feet (4.3 m). The NTSB determined the probable cause was the Air Canada flight crew's confusion of the runway with the parallel taxiway, with contributing causes including the crew's failure to use the instrument landing system (ILS), as well as pilot fatigue. A retired pilot stated the runway confusion that almost happened "probably came close to the greatest aviation disaster in history" as five airplanes and potentially over 1,000 passengers were at imminent risk of a disaster greater than the Tenerife airport disaster.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Air Canada Flight 759» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_759
Wikidata Q33025184: «inconveniente aereo grave in Canada nel 2017» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33025184
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_759?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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