Plane nearly lands on occupied runway in San Francisco

An Aeromexico passenger jet was ordered to abort a landing at San Francisco International as it descended toward a runway occupied by another commercial jet, the third close call at the busy airport in 6 months, officials said Thursday. Aeromexico Flight 668 from Mexico City had been cleared to land Tuesday and it was about a mile from the airport when controllers saw the aircraft was lined up for a runway occupied by a Virgin America Airbus A320 jet waiting to take off for Hawaii. The tower ordered the Aeromexico Boeing 737 jet to circle around. "Aeromexico 668 go around!" an air traffic controller is heard saying on audio recordings. Pilots and safety experts said air traffic controllers did a good job when they quickly redirected the Aeromexico jet at an airport that many pilots say is notoriously difficult to land at. <br/>