FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Exclusive: SFO near miss might have triggered ‘greatest aviation disaster in history’
Thread: Exclusive: SFO near miss might have triggered ‘greatest aviation disaster in history’
View Single Post
Old Aug 9, 2017, 6:12 pm
  #676  
dhuey
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Berkeley, CA USA
Programs: Piggly Wiggly "Shop the Pig!" Preferred Shopper
Posts: 57,078
Originally Posted by Bunyak
Here's Patrick Smith's take on it:
http://www.askthepilot.com/express-blog/
"...but the air Canada pilots, aided by the vigilance of air traffic control and startled pilots on the taxiway, realized in time that they were lined up incorrectly."

Aided?! The AC pilots were not merely aided by the UA1 pilot and the tower. There is every reason to believe the AC plane would have crashed into UA1 without this aid.

This pilot-blogger should update that post.
dhuey is offline  
Reply