[ShadowBanThis01]

So punish everyone because of Air Canada's fuck-up?

[timerol]

It's not punishment. The reason air travel is so safe is because every near-miss is root-caused and policies are put in place to prevent the same cause from resulting in a future accident.

[ShadowBanThis01]

I see. So this policy has been imposed on all class-B airports?

Also, it's not a "near-miss." It's a near-hit or near-disaster.

[koyote]

There have been two major incidents around landing at SFO in the last decade, one involving fatalities.

Prioritising safety by requesting to land using ILS after a 12 hour flight should not be seen as 'punishing' everyone else.

[nerdponx]

My understanding is that the Lufthansa crew could/should have requested ILS much sooner in order to give ATC time to figure it out.

[ShadowBanThis01]

Except of course that everyone else is apparently able to handle it.

[yellow_postit]

Right up until they can’t and a new rule gets written in blood. Given the depth perception issues of lights at night this seems like a sane request.

The bigger problems are overworked ATC (fixable) and the utter mess that is SFO design (seems unlikely to fix)

[neom]

As they say, FAA rules are written in blood.

https://www.cfinotebook.net/notebook/rules-and-regulations/r...

[affyboi]

I mean, yes. Every single time there’s an aviation incident there’s an extremely thorough investigation and generally a set of concrete recommendations to go along with it.

Pilots are human, automated systems fail, and the goal is to maximize safety because these fuckups mean that 200-300 people on a single plane might die (or more if a plane crashes into another or into a populated area) and these safety regulations have saved a lot of lives.