Many incidences increases the change for a major disaster.

Well, one or more grave errors were made, clearly. But I'm glad the tower was heads-up enough to see things going wrong, and that the aircrew immediately and competently complied with the tower's corrective instructions. Mistakes were made and there will be consequences, but everyone went home alive that day.

Two pilots both making the same critical mistakes. Totally unacceptable.

Is the ILS still not functioning at SFO?

And the FAA wants to do away with controllers and let pilots separate themselves with the ADS transceivers in the cockpit. Bye bye General Aviation small planes!

"The Aeromexico jet was approaching the airport using its instrument landing system, " Please one of you commercial pilots explain what that even means...... "instrument landing system" ? Whatever that means or the article's author intended, at this point who was flying the AC, the pilot(s) or some automated system ? I'm leading up to how are they lined up on RWY L, instead of R- who is responsible for that happening ? Incorrect data entered into whatever 'automated system' is doing the flying, or the pilot(s) simply pointing the AC at the wrong RWY...?

both 28R and 28L have ILS approaches but they have different frequencies, if they inadvertently entered the wrong frequency for their approach then the computer would take them down the wrong pathway.

Both the PIC and the copilot would have had to been in agreement on 28L. Strange that the aircraft was able to continue so far into the approach without either noticing the issue.

11:45 AM? daylight....weather?

Always set up and monitor the ILS even in VMC. No excuse. Is there an RNAV approach?

Even a Garmin-1000 has two separate computers that can both be used. I teach in a flight school with a G-1000 with two PFD's. I also flew with a Honeywell PRIMUS 2000 for 8 years. They can display separate information. The PF has the main info coupled to his side. The PNF can set up anything else. PF=NAV 1. PNF=NAV 2. Now you are using two distinct computers. PNF can also set up a bearing pointer. Nothing on the PNF affects the PF information. Concerning the IDENT on ANY NAVAID, the frequency will be white until it detects a signal, hears the code and then the frequency will change to green in the box. The two computers also talk to each other and if there is a miscompare will send a caution to the EICAS. At SFO, they may still have a problem with their ILS.

At some point, though, don't you look straight ahead, see the big "L" under the "28," and say, "Hey, didn't they say 'right'...?" Not to mention the small matter of an A320 on the runway...Oh, wait, that's it. The Airbus was probably covering up the runway number...:-)

All I can say is WOW. to many lives at stake for such mistakes.

Amen

Is that a Casa Bonita down there ????

Seems to be a lot of these lately, you have to wonder why some folks seem to just get it wrong, and not just one but two pilots, come on.
On another note, I was listening to an ATC recording and controller keep telling a Korean crew to turn south out of an airport here in the USA, sorry not being a controller, but why was this flight KAL not given same instructions as other acrft departing, "turn right to 180"? why continue with a turn right and head south, what the hell does that mean. And as for the clearity of instruction, too much of the time I cannot even understand the instructions being given to a flight, sounds like mumbo jumbo.
I have never heard a controller use such a means of instruction.
This industry as a whole needs to be examined, this is not a third rate means of transporting people and no doubt to be a pilot etc. requires much but one thing seems to be obvious to me, a lack of concentration as with so much these days.

Incompetent people all around....in the tower and the cockpit!

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Aeroméxico plane nearly lands on wrong runway in third close call for SFO in six months

The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into another close call at one of the nation's busiest airports. The pilots of an Aeroméxico flight lined up for landing Tuesday on the wrong runway at San Francisco International Airport.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aeromexico-plane-nearly-lands-wrong-runway-san-francisco-international-airport/