Originally Posted by
24left
SFO ATC was part of the problem that night (pages 16-20 in the NTSB report). AC was not the only airline with an issue related to 28R and Taxiway C that night. There was another flight prior to with the same or a similar confusion (page 9, DL 521).
I'm not sure who else you fly besides UA, but there are ample records out there about other airlines who had planes land on the wrong runways, or on taxiways.
I prefer to look at this event as a major wake-up call to Air Canada (where changes have already been made and more are to come), to SFO ATC, to other airlines, to the FAA, Transport Canada and the NTSB and anyone else I left out. But then I'm a pragmatic optimist.
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That information is continuously ignored in most of the coverage of the situation, which is not to excuse AC, but highlights that most major disasters happen due to a combination of factors, not one single cause.