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A USAir Boeing 737-300 at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on February 28, 1986. This aircraft would later crash as Flight 1493. In October 1989, ground was broken for Terminal 4, the largest terminal. [19] It opened on November 2, 1990, [20] with four concourses: N2 and N3 on the north side and S3 and S4 on the south side. In 1994 the ...
San Francisco International Airport (IATA: SFO, ICAO: KSFO, FAA LID: SFO) is the primary international airport serving the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is located in an unincorporated area of San Mateo County , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and is about 12 miles southeast of San Francisco.
On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400 flying United's regularly scheduled transpacific service from San Francisco International Airport to Sydney Airport was forced to shut down one of its right-wing engines and nearly collided with San Bruno Mountain while recovering from the engine failure.
San Francisco's airport (SFO) is the largest of the three in the Bay Area and about 13 miles south of the city. Oakland's airport is about 20 miles east of downtown San Francisco.
Modern San Francisco airport diagram showing runway layout (in 1971 runway 28R was more than 2,000 feet (610 m) shorter) [5] Flight 845's crew had planned and calculated its takeoff for runway 28L but discovered only after pushback that this runway had been closed hours earlier for maintenance, [6] and that the first 1,000 feet (300 m) of runway 01R, the preferential runway at that time, [a ...
A United Airlines plane departing San Francisco International Airport on Thursday morning lost one of its tires shortly after takeoff but landed safely at Los Angeles International Airport.
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Airports in the United States that provide scheduled passenger services and have over 10,000 passenger boardings per year are classified as primary airports by the Federal Aviation Administration. This list of primary airports contains the following information: CITY – The city generally associated with the airport. This is not always the ...