Air Canada aircraft almost landed on taxiway with 4 planes on it at San Francisco

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Re: Air Canada aircraft almost landed on taxiway with 4 planes on it at San Francisco

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It's minimum recorded altitude was 59 ft! Imagine an A380 (height: 79 ft !!!) would have been on that taxiway!

Frightening!

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Re: Air Canada aircraft almost landed on taxiway with 4 planes on it at San Francisco

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FAA changes San Francisco landing procedures after the Air Canada A320 near miss.

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Re: Air Canada aircraft almost landed on taxiway with 4 planes on it at San Francisco

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convair wrote: 03 Aug 2017, 20:53 It's minimum recorded altitude was 59 ft! Imagine an A380 (height: 79 ft !!!) would have been on that taxiway!

Frightening!
First paragraph from a long update on AvHerald.com: "...On Sep 25th 2018 the NTSB, while holding the board meeting to determine the causes of the serious incident, reported that the crew initiated the go around at 89 feet AGL, after the go around was initiated the aircraft descended to a minimum of 60 feet before climbing again, the minimum distance to one of the aircraft on the taxiway was 13 feet..."
http://avherald.com/h?article=4ab79f58&opt=0

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