Originally Posted by Underfire
Other drivers had no problem landing.
From the report:
Given that the general outline of airplane lights along taxiway C (in a straight line) had likely confirmed the crew’s expectation that the right-side surface was a runway, the omission of conflicting color cues in the crew’s assessment of the runway environment was consistent with the effects of expectation bias.105 The captain of DAL521 (the flight that immediately preceded the ACA759 into SFO) provided a similar assessment during postincident interviews. Specifically, the DAL521 captain stated that the airplane lights on taxiway C gave the impression that that surface could have been a runway.106