Simultaneous visual approaches to San Francisco’s closely spaced parallel runways are a thing of the past.
Credit: JoePriesAviation.Net
The FAA’s surprise decision to prohibit a well-established arrival procedure at San Francisco International Airport is a sign of the agency’s evolving push to eliminate operational hazards before they become risks—and worst-case, contributors—to accident sequences. The agency on March 31 banned...
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