Originally Posted by
3dfx
My read is that the "their" is a gender-neutral pronouns of the FA suggesting that this is the FA's first time taking off from SFO, not necessarily the captain's.
Originally Posted by
jsloan
The odds are a lot better of this type of incident happening in SFO than they would be in, say, Bismarck, given the traffic disparities between the two.
Not sure I'd call this a systemic failure, but wow, it just kind of amazes me that even if this was the FO's first SFO departure, they were not aware of the special risks created by the parallel runway setup and the basic common sense conclusion which follows that when you're departing on 1R, YOU DO NOT TURN LEFT IMMEDIATELY AFTER TAKEOFF.