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> This same airport had a crash during visual approach during the day no?

I did a quick google and couldn't find this.




This seems like one of the reasons for the policy to always use ILS at SFO:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_759

"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"[2][3][4][5] as five airplanes and potentially over 1,000 passengers were at imminent risk of a disaster greater than the Tenerife airport disaster."



That's it, not sure what they googled, it comes up first when searching San Francisco airplane crash...


I was expecting something more recent.




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