Originally Posted by
nolimitholdem
*sigh*
In visual conditions there's no way anyone's landing on an occupied strip of pavement, night or not. ATC may have ordered a go-around but that doesn't mean the AC crew hadn't already noticed their error. If the aircraft on C were waiting to take off they would have been at the threshold end and clearly visible.
It certainly wasn't anything close to a disaster. An embarrassing, recoverable error if true, at most.
Ignoring the AC crew noticing their error, say the taxiway was empty ... at what stage would they have noticed their error?
I'm more interested in your statement i put in bold. In light of the articles posted above, where this has happened at night before, at a large international airport no different to SFO ... what evidence are you using to back your claim that this can never happen? I'm genuinely interested