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[When is] SAN Landing Reversed (West to East)
Flew into SAN last night and after passing under the marine layer, realized that I was not looking out the window at downtown as I should have been. As we touched down, it hit me that we had landed from west to east. A quick check of our flight pattern online confirmed that we went a few miles out over the Pacific, circled back, and landed to the east.
I've never landed any way in SAN except the usual east-to-west over downtown. Anyone know exactly why this happened - weather related, I'm assuming? There really didn't seem to be much fog last night, but the marine layer height was fairly low.