Air Canada plane averted collision in San Francisco by feet

An Air Canada plane that nearly landed on a taxiway in San Francisco last month passed only 59 feet above the ground before aborting its approach and averting a crash, US investigators said Wednesday. The Airbus A320 may have missed one or more of the planes in its path on the ground by just a few feet in the July 7 incident. The Airbus was preparing to land not on the intended runway but on an adjacent taxiway, where other aircraft had lined up as they waited for take-off. The pilots told NTSB investigators they thought they were about to land on 1 of 2 parallel runways at San Francisco International airport. "They did not recall seeing aircraft on taxiway C" but "something did not look right to them," the NTSB said in an update of its probe. <br/>