Originally Posted by
787PIC
Anyone with more info or possibly the ATC tapes of an incident in SFO, on Friday July 07, just before midnight local time?
Apparently an Air Canada jet cleared to land on 28R had lined up with the parallel taxiway "C".
There were up to 5 "heavies" full of fuel and pax waiting for T/O on that taxiway.
Unconfirmed reports indicate that the Captain of UA 001, (a 787 bound for SIN) may have said something on the Tower frequency to get the pilot's attention and causing them to go around!
Perhaps averting the most horrific aviation disaster in history!
I'm interested in aviation but only a (lapsed) microlight pilot. So a simple question: why is it not mandatory for lit runways to have a pattern of lights that spells out the runway name that can be seen by landing aircraft? e.g. "28R"