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Year in Review: Air Canada named Yahoo 2017 Company of the Year
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/year-revie...195344413.html
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his article came within 59 feet of not being written.
On July 7, Air Canada flight 759 was cleared to land on runway 28R at San Francisco International Airport. The pilots, however, attempted to land on a parallel taxiway where four other planes loaded with passengers and fuel sat, pulling back up only when they were “less than a
second
from a disaster,” according to one report.
But close calls are not catastrophes, and the captain and co-captain of the A320 jet — who had logged 20,000 and 10,000 hours of
flying time
respectively — landed the plane safely and without incident.
This is among the least remarkable events in Air Canada’s year.
The airline, which filed for
bankruptcy
protection just 14 years ago, has achieved one of the most impressive turnarounds in the transportation industry.
In 2017, its share price hit a 10-year
high
.
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