Originally Posted by avherald

Incident: Canada A320 at San Francisco on Jul 7th 2017, lined up with taxiway for landing

By Simon Hradecky, created Tuesday, Jul 11th 2017 13:32Z, last updated Friday, Oct 12th 2018 17:03Z

An Air Canada Airbus A320-200, registration C-FKCK performing flight AC-759 from Toronto,ON (Canada) to San Francisco,CA (USA) with 140 people on board, was on final approach to runway 28R in night conditions being cleared to land at about 23:56L (06:56Z Jul 8th), when a short time after reading back the landing clearance the crew queried tower to confirm they were cleared to land advising they were seeing lights on the runway, tower advised the runway was clear and they were cleared to land indeed. Another voice chimed in calling they were lined up with the taxiway, tower immediately instructed AC-759 to go around as result commenting it looked like they were lined up for taxiway C. The aircraft went around from below 100 feet AGL. Other flight crew taxiing their aircraft on taxiway C commented the A320 was flying straight over them. The A320 positioned for another approach and landed safely about 15 minutes later...