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NTSB Opens Docket in Air Canada Taxiway Overflight Incident

May 3, 2018
The image at bottom shows the configuration of Runways 28L and 28R, and Taxiway C at San Francisco International Airport. The “X” at the threshold of 28L indicates that runway was closed. The bottom image shows the four airliners that were lined up on Taxiway C as Air Canada Flight 759 approached. Source: NTSB

The U.S. National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) has opened a public docket as part of its investigation into a July 7, 2017, incident in which an Air Canada Airbus A320, on a nighttime approach to San Francisco International Airport, mistakenly lined up with an occupied taxiway instead of parallel Runway 28R. Air Canada Flight 759 descended below 100 ft above the ground before the flight crew initiated a go-around. NTSB said the go-around was initiated after the Air Canada jet overflew the first of four aircraft on Taxiway C.

The docket contains a security video that shows the A320 approaching the airport and then going around. Other material in the docket includes factual reports for oper…

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