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Old 11th Jul 2017, 18:10
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Originally Posted by altiplano
FMS bridge visual 28R is an offset approach which requires you to maneuver to the centerline.

It's very obvious which is the runway there, particularly on a clear night.

I can't imagine they were going to land on an aircraft. Again it's obvious where the runway is there. They were probably just not all the way over to the left yet and the go around was initiated with an abundance of caution.
I dunno what scares me more these days, the utter incompetence of pilots entrusted with the lives of their passengers, or their colleagues tendency to attempt to gloss over incidents like this as minor trivialities

They weren't merely not quite lined up, they'd been lined up for a while

And they didn't initiate a go around with an abundance of caution, they were instructed to go around to save from landing on several large fully fuelled aircraft
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