Mr. Sharp,
You should be ashamed of your post and apologize. A San Francisco Bay Area broadcaster was fired for making remarks similar to the last two lines of your post about the Asiana crash.
If you have any knowledge, wisdom, or advice in your post, you totally undermined them with your two deeply offensive lines.
Very early newspaper accounts of this incident DID report that one runway was closed at the time. I read about it within hours of the near-miss (or whatever you want to call it). I consider this a serious incident, and if there are no recordings left and no consequences for anyone, this is a really bad situation. It's as if it never happened, and as a frequent passenger in and out of SFO, I am really angry about that. At the very least, the pilots should have to be re-trained even more rigorously than usual and the ATC staffing situation changed.
Yes, SFO is a very important and busy airport. Yes, it was nighttime. And the taxiway IS close to the runway 28L, probably two plane lengths, I'd guess—not much. And with only one controller, that doesn't sound good at SFO that night. Aren't there different colored lights for each type of lane?
The separation between 28L and 28R is already too close for modern comfort. In inclement weather—fog, rain (lots of it at SFO, the frequency of f
To the doubters about these photos: What will the doubters about this ball thrower do in recompense if they are wrong and the plane goes down, that it didn't happen that way? Will you still say it—any of it—was a lie? Then, also, were there imaginary birds sucked into Sullenberger's US Airway's and the landed in 20-degree water for the thrill and notoriety?
Even if the perspective and the distance is misleading—even if—do you think it's OK to even pretend to throw a ball in this way? Or that St. Maarten's Beach is not this way, even though many people have show photos that the beach is this spectacularly and dangerously close to incoming planes?
Finally, is OK to even try to throw something at an incoming plane of 200+ people (or any plane at all (except for a pilot trying to kill you)? If this plane had your family or friends onboard would you deny this evidence or act by saying it was the crew's fault for their flying skills or the ocean's fault for letting this person swim in
