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Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster by Karunamon on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @02:14PM (#14746551)
Yeowch. I was about ready to make a comment about how the airport/approach plates should make something like this impossible, but then I looked up the diagram for SEA:

https://flightaware.com/resources/airport/SEA/APD/AIRPORT+DI...

Basically, you've got a runway, the taxiway of the same length as the runway!, and then two longer runways from left to right. I totally see how someone could make this mistake in bad lighting or weather!

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Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster by wolfgang42 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @02:59PM (#14746963)
And a note on that diagram:

    CAUTION:
    Pilots are cautioned not to
    mistake Twy T for a landing
    surface.
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