On November 21, 2005, Gulfstream Aerospace announced that a Gulfstream G550 had set three speed records. The first of the two trips began on October 28 when the G550’s took off from Seoul, South Korea, at 6:04 p.m., flew nonstop, and landed a in Teterboro, NJ, 13 hours and 45 minutes later. The flight achieved the […]
Air Canada Flight Got As Low As 59 FT Above Ground Level Before Go-Around at SFO Taxiway
On July 7, 2017, Air Canada Flight 759 (AC 759) from Toronto to San Francisco got as low as 59 ft above ground level (AGL) before completing a successful go-around. The Air Canada pilots lined up the Airbus A320 to land on occupied Taxiway C at San Francisco International Airport instead of on parallel Runway […]
Runway Incursion at SFO
On May 26, 2007, a runway incursion occurred at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) when an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia turboprop aircraft from SkyWest Airlines (flight SKW5741 operating as United Express), nearly collided with an Embraer 170 Regional Jet from Republic Airlines (flight 4912 operating as Frontier Airlines) at the intersection of runways 1L and […]