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AVweb “(NOTAMs) are just a bunch of garbage that nobody pays any attention to,” said NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt during the 2018 hearing on the infamous Air Canada incident, in which pilots missed a critical piece of information. Unnoticed on page eight of a 27-page briefing package was the fact that one of the destination airport’s two runways was closed. The pilots chose the wrong reference point and lined up to land on a taxiway, narrowly missing four waiting aircraft ...

Global Aviation Safety Campaign Targets ‘Bunch of Garbage’ to Ease Pilot Overload When it came time to land at San Francisco on July 7, 2017, the pilots of an Air Canada jet could not recall a critical piece of information buried on page eight of a 27-page briefing package: the closure of one of the airport’s two runways. Mistaking the runway they were cleared to land on for the one that was closed, the fatigued pilots chose the wrong reference point and lined up to land on a parallel tax...

Article content When it came time to land at San Francisco on July 7, 2017, the pilots of an Air Canada jet could not recall a critical piece of information buried on page eight of a 27-page briefing package: the closure of one of the airport’s two runways. Mistaking the runway they were cleared to land on for the one that was closed, the fatigued pilots chose the wrong reference point and lined up to land on a parallel taxiway instead. They came within seconds of colliding with four planes. ...

5 Min Read (Reuters) - When it came time to land at San Francisco on July 7, 2017, the pilots of an Air Canada jet could not recall a critical piece of information buried on page eight of a 27-page briefing package: the closure of one of the airport’s two runways. Mistaking the runway they were cleared to land on for the one that was closed, the fatigued pilots chose the wrong reference point and lined up to land on a parallel taxiway instead. They came within seconds of colliding with four p...

Man fined after being caught with knife in Aberdeen following report of disturbance © Darrell Benns / DCT Media Aberdeen Sheriff Court. A man has been fined after being caught with a knife when police were called to reports of a disturbance. Lewis Shanks was found by police at a bus stop of Holburn Street near where there had been a report of a disturbance involving multiple people. The 21-year-old was searched by police after matching the description of someone involved in the disturbance, an...