Incident: Airbus A320-211
Jul 8, 2017 · San Francisco, CA
NTSB numberDCA17IA148Event id20170709X81141
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Serious injuries
- 0
- Minor injuries
- 0
- Uninjured
Probable cause
The flight crew's misidentification of taxiway C as the intended landing runway, which resulted from the crewmembers' lack of awareness of the parallel runway closure due to their ineffective review of notice to airmen (NOTAM) information before the flight and during the approach briefing. Contributing to the incident were (1) the flight crew's failure to tune the instrument landing system frequency for backup lateral guidance, expectation bias, fatigue due to circadian disruption and length of continued wakefulness, and breakdowns in crew resource management and (2) Air Canada's ineffective presentation of approach procedure and NOTAM information.
Source: National Transportation Safety Board. Record last changed Oct 28, 2026, 10:54 UTC.
Aircraft involved
- Aircraft
- Airbus A320-211
- Registration
- C-FKCK
- Year built
- 1992
- Category
- Airplane
- Operating rules
- Part 129: foreign air carrier
- Defining event
- Approach Wrong surface or wrong airport
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Nearest airports
Airports with a Voydar profile closest to the recorded position. Proximity only.
- San Francisco International Airport (SFO)1 nm (2 km) west
- San Carlos Airport (SQL)8 nm (15 km) south-east
- Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport (OAK)9 nm (17 km) north-east
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