Runway lights baffled pilots on night of San Francisco near-miss

Construction lights were so bright they were confusing to pilots who tried to land at night in July 2017 when a fatigued Air Canada crew almost struck 4 aircraft on the ground in San Francisco, according to preliminary reports. The NTSB released more than 500 pages of investigative reports Wednesday, but didn’t reach conclusions on what caused the airliner to come within feet of triggering a catastrophe. Both pilots reported that they felt fatigued in the latter stages of their flight from Toronto. The captain told investigators he may have gotten less than 6 hours of sleep and his rest had been disrupted by a late flight the previous night. As the Air Canada plane approached the runway, the co-pilot thought something “didn’t look right,” he told investigators. However, he wasn’t certain what was wrong and was “unable to process what he was seeing”. <br/>