[Newsbot]

Title: Air Canada near miss in San Fran was just feet from �worst aviation accident in history�
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: BeaverFever
Date: 2018-10-12 08:36:41
Canadian

[BeaverFever]

Oooops.....Sorry ‘merka, this one’s on us!

[llama66]

Jesus, I didn't realize it was that bad.

[BartSimpson]

Here's the video...

[BartSimpson]

Shit...not the first time an Air Canada flight nearly caused a slaughter at SFO:

[BeaverFever]

So it bottomed out at 60’. I looked it up and the tallest of the 4 planes on that taxiway in this incident was a Philippine Airliners Airbus A340, which has a tail height of 56ft. 9 inches!

Had there been a Boeing 777 (height 61’) or Airbus A380 (79’, 7 inches) on that taxiway this would be a very different story!

[BeaverFever]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Shit...not the first time an Air Canada flight nearly caused a slaughter at SFO:

Yeah those 2 incidents happened not long apart from each other.

[BartSimpson]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

So it bottomed out at 60’. I looked it up and the tallest of the 4 planes on that taxiway in this incident was a Philippine Airliners Airbus A340, which has a tail height of 56ft. 9 inches!

Had there been a Boeing 777 (height 61’) or Airbus A380 (79’, 7 inches) on that taxiway this would be a very different story!

Crap.

[BeaverFever]

To be fair, it doesn’t say the AC plane was directly over the other aircraft at the point it reached 60’...that could have been before or after, but still! The NTSB didn’t say “a few feet” for no reason!

[BartSimpson]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

To be fair, it doesn’t say the AC plane was directly over the other aircraft at the point it reached 60’...that could have been before or after, but still! The NTSB didn’t say “a few feet” for no reason!

If you watch the first video you can see the AC landing lights lighting up the first plane on the taxiway. I think that's the plane that almost became a funeral pyre.

[llama66]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

To be fair, it doesn’t say the AC plane was directly over the other aircraft at the point it reached 60’...that could have been before or after, but still! The NTSB didn’t say “a few feet” for no reason!

If you watch the first video you can see the AC landing lights lighting up the first plane on the taxiway. I think that's the plane that almost became a funeral pyre.

Jesus titty fucking christ. Holy shit is that close. Were I the pilot my underwear would be coated in a protective layer of shit after the near collision.

[BartSimpson]

llama66 llama66:

Jesus titty fucking christ. Holy shit is that close. Were I the pilot my underwear would be coated in a protective layer of shit after the near collision.