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Passenger spots aircraft ‘hanging in mid-air’ over San Francisco in weird optical phantasm

Daily SF News — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 19:10:08 +0000

A plane passenger captured the moment that a plane, just parallel to his was at a standstill in the sky over a bridge in San Francisco
The video was posted online and attracted commenters to speculate what might have caused it
The moment is known to be extremely rare and amazing to witness

This is the incredible moment a passenger spotted another plane ‘hanging in mid-air’ over San Francisco.

Posted to Reddit, the video attracted many commenters who questioned the reason for the plane being at a standstill.

‘It’s parallax, which is the observed displacement of an object caused by the change of the observer’s point of view. We see it all the time,’ said one commenter.

A pilot told Daily Mirror the stunt is an optical illusion – that involves two planes landing at the same time and the smaller one moving slower.

A passenger from another plane caught the moment that a separate aircraft was at floating in mid-air near the San Francisco International Airport

‘San Francisco has a procedure when the weather is adequate and both aircraft [sic] can see each other, they can land with less separation laterally than you’d normally need,’ the pilot told the outlet following a similar incident.

‘The aircraft is much lighter than the one where the passenger is filming, so it will be flying much slower – and there could be a strong headwind which means less movement over the ground too.’

Commenters thought otherwise about why the aircraft was hanging in mid-air.

‘No no glitch in the Matrix is the more rational explanation,’ a Reddit user commented.

‘No, I thinks [sic] it’s stopped in time guys, anyone see if it’s still stuck there,’ said another.

Locals to the area said that they have witnessed this spectacle time and time again.

‘As someone who lives it this area and drives on that bridge all the time, I’m sure hundreds or thousands of people on it would have stopped and recorded the plane just floating above them in mid air,’ said a commenter.

‘I live rite [sic] by a airport, they come in all the time going super slow like that. It looks impossible but it’s not,’ said another.

San Francisco locals commented under the video posted to Reddit of the plane hovering over the bridge and shared how this was a normal occurrence in that area Others commented and insisted that this was a ‘glitch in the Matrix’ or happened due to aliens and different supernatural phenomenon’s In 2013 San Francisco International Airport implemented new arrival procedures called Closely- Spaced Parallel Runways. In order to orchestrate this amazing site an airport must have two parallel runways separated by a small distance

San Francisco International Airport initiated new arrival procedures in the fall of 2013 called Closely- Spaced Parallel Runways.

‘This will allow staggered arrivals on parallel runways during poor weather conditions, further improving on-time performance at SFO. Arriving aircraft are separated by 1.5 nautical miles,’ SFO said on their website.

Visual flight rules are a set of guidelines that pilots follow in an aircraft, under clear weather conditions.

‘VFR flight is based on the principle of ‘see and avoid.’ The presumption made in establishing the basic VFR weather minimums is that aircraft flying at lower altitudes and/or in airspace with radar approach control and/or an operating control tower will be moving more slowly, or that they will be under positive control,’ said The Federal Aviation Administration.

When this happens, aircrafts do not need as much flight visibility or distance from clouds in order to avoid other air traffic.

A similar incident occurred in August as a passenger in another plane posted a video to Reddit of a United Airlines aircraft hovering just above land.

The passenger captioned the video: ‘Landing at SFO. What is happening here?’ They ended the caption with an alien emoji and a question mark.

The wing of the moving plane reveals a plane not too far away, completely still and hovering in the air with its wheels out.

‘UFO at SFO,’ said one commenter.

‘It’s a glitch in the matrix,’ said another.

Some commenters appeared to know exactly what was happening to the plane and went on to explain it.

‘It is an optical illusions [sic] caused by a shifting perceptual frame where one plane is moving at a moderate rate of speed, while simultaneously, the other plane is floating perfectly still in one spot in the air,’ said another.

Another said: ‘Tell me you have never had a duel [sic] landing at SFO before posting it on social media. They are famous for it [un]like any other airport in the country.’

Other US airports that have the appropriate facilities to conduct simultaneous take-offs and landings include Newark Liberty International Airport and Kansas City International Airport.

At Newark Airport United Airlines maintains their own operational hub to do so.

According to Simple Flying: ‘In fact, 23 different US airports can accommodate three aircraft approaching three runways simultaneously, some of which are rather small.’

In a similar incident, a passenger recorded from the inside of his plane window as the wing of the moving plane reveals a plane not too far away, completely still and hovering in the air with its wheels out A similar video posted to Reddit in August also caused a lot of speculation on why exactly the plane was hovering so low and close to land. Some blamed it on aliens and the Matrix, while others said it was a dual landing taking place

Other airports can accommodate more than three aircraft taking off at once, like Denver International Airport and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

‘Chicago-O’Hare International Airport (ORD) can even hypothetically permit six aircraft to land simultaneously, which would truly be a sight to behold,’ said Simple Flying.

Though this moment is rare, it is a beautiful phenomenon to witness from another aircraft.

It is unclear exactly where the floating plane was coming from or if there were passengers onboard.

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Substitute airplane for Air India flight lands in San Francisco after being diverted to Russia | Information

Daily SF News — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 09:54:03 +0000

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Air India airplane flying to San Francisco lands in Russia’s Siberia after engine drawback | Information

Daily SF News — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 21:46:10 +0000

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Lady left her AirPods on a aircraft after touchdown in San Francisco. She tracked them to an airport employee’s residence

Daily SF News — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 19:34:11 +0000

By Julia Buckley | CNN

We’ve had people tracking their bags when airlines couldn’t find them. Now here’s something new: a passenger tracking an item she left on a plane – to an airport employee’s home.

Alisabeth Hayden travels frequently to meet her husband at his military post. (Alisabeth Hayden via CNN)

Earlier in March, Washington state’s Alisabeth Hayden was separated from her AirPods – Apple’s expensive micro headphones – while stepping off a plane in San Francisco. She quickly realized that they had apparently been stolen.

But after nearly two weeks, she had them back — thanks to her persistent tracking skills.

Hayden was flying back from a trip to Tokyo to visit her husband, who is on secondment to the military, when her headphones were taken away.

Stepping off the plane at San Francisco International Airport — and a little disoriented after a nine-hour flight from Tokyo — she left her denim jacket on her seat in the back of the plane.

“I realized before I got off the plane,” she says. “I was the third to get off the plane, so I asked the flight attendant if I could get it. He said no – I was required by federal law to get off the plane and stand by where the strollers are being taken. I was tired, he said he would bring it to me, I said ok.”

He actually brought it to her – and she boarded her next flight to Seattle. “There was a kid next to me screaming and I was like, ‘At least I have my AirPods,'” she recalls. She reached for her jacket—she had left the two breast pockets buttoned, one containing her headphones, one with some Japanese yen inside.

“The pockets were open and my AirPods were gone,” she says.

Hayden received updates on the location of her AirPods the entire time they went missing. (Courtesy of Alisabeth Hayden via CNN)

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The plane had already departed for Seattle, but Hayden used the onboard WiFi to track the headphones with the Find My app, which tracks Apple devices. The AirPods were shown at SFO.

Then she noticed that they were moving.

“I’m a hardworking person, and I’ve been tracking all the way from San Francisco to Seattle, taking screenshots the whole time. I live an hour from Seattle, and when I got home I was still taking screenshots,” she says.

The AirPods, meanwhile, appeared in a location on the map called “United Cargo” — still inside the airport, but on the airline’s cargo side, so not where a passenger would likely be.

Then they went to Terminal 2. Then to Terminal 3. Then they were on Highway 101 south to San Mateo. They landed at what appeared to be a residential address in the Bay Area and stayed there for three days.

Hayden tracked her AirPods to someone in the Bay Area. (Courtesy of Alisabeth Hayden via CNN)

Of course, everyone’s gadgets are valuable, but Hayden’s AirPods have a special meaning — they’re her connection to her husband, who calls her from his assignment on a line so bad she needs them to hear him.

From the moment she realized they were gone, Hayden tried to get her back. She messaged United and SFO from the plane, then tried San Francisco police, Hayward (where the tracker was displayed), and SFO’s own airport police.

She devised the email format for United employees’ emails and “devastated” every single executive she could find anywhere in the world. “I tried every avenue I could find and used every form of communication I could, and I got the same response, ‘I’m sorry this happened to you,'” she says.

In the meantime, she says, she marked the AirPods as “lost” on the app so anyone using them would hear a message letting them know they were hers and giving them their phone number.

United, she says, have been “divine” in their communication with her.

“First they said, ‘I’m sorry you lost your things on our flight.’ I was like, ‘I didn’t lose them, I was denied an opportunity to get my jacket by an employee… and now my $250 AirPods are missing.'”

The person who helped? A San Mateo Police Department detective who works at the airport.

He compared the address the headphones pinged from to the address of an airport worker — a contractor who worked loading groceries onto planes.

United would later clarify to Hayden in an email that they were “not a United employee, but a vendor.”

She now says: “I can’t speculate but what I do know is that when I got up they were in the bag, I wasn’t allowed to go back to my seat, and when the steward brought [the jacket] they weren’t there for me – and when I was chasing them, they were at an employee’s house.”

United confirmed to CNN that the employee works for a United provider and said the matter has been referred to law enforcement.

In a statement, it added: “United Airlines holds our suppliers to the highest standards and we are working with local authorities to investigate this matter.”

The AirPods were eventually reunited with their owner. (Alisabeth Hayden via CNN)

“They look like they’ve been trampled on”

Hayden says the detective told her that “the information was passed to United Cargo and they would call that person into the office and question him.”

“For the next few days, I watched my AirPods at this man’s house. They should have died because I hadn’t charged them before my trip, but I kept getting a notification that they were ‘seen’. [by the app] — which meant someone had their iPhone connected to the AirPods.”

A few days later, the detective called her again to say that the employee had been questioned. He had denied having the AirPods until he was shown the tracking screenshots at his home – at which point he said he got them from one of the plane cleaners. This person denied any knowledge of the situation.

The matter is now being handled by the San Francisco Airport Police Department, which plans to refer the case to the San Mateo Attorney’s Office, a San Mateo County spokesman confirmed to CNN.

After 12 days of hunting, Hayden finally got her AirPods back — albeit not in top condition. “They look like they’ve been stepped on,” she says. “They were wrapped in a toilet paper-sized piece of bubble wrap, why bother?”

When she informed United of her condition, she was told to leave feedback using the contact form on the website. A week later, and after CNN first reached out to the airline about her case, Hayden was told she would receive $271.91 in “expenses” (to buy a new pair) plus 5,000 miles as an apology .

“I paid for you to make sure nobody steals my stuff”

Hayden – who also always travels with an AirTag – says she would like to be the latest in alleged theft from an airplane.

“I’m persistent – but what about the people who don’t have time or give up? How many people will be told, ‘You left them, what do you expect?’” she asks.

She calls the detective who helped her “amazing”.

In the meantime, she can communicate with her husband again with restored AirPods.

“Maybe they look like AirPods to normal people, but they’re my lifeline to my husband and they mean something different to me,” she says.

“But I shouldn’t have to explain it for someone to care.”

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Couple who examined constructive for coronavirus earlier than San Francisco flight to Hawaii arrested after boarding airplane

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 08:59:35 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO – A Hawaiian couple who traveled to Kaua’i from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) were arrested for being on the flight when they knew they were positive for COVID-19, the mayor said from Kaua’i with.

The man and woman are Kaua’i residents who tested positive during pre-travel screenings prior to their United Airlines flight from SFO over the weekend.

You are charged with reckless second degree endangerment and are currently in isolation. Contact tracing is done to notify anyone who needs to be quarantined.

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The two cases have increased the total number of currently positive cases on the island of Kaua’i from 15 to 17. The cumulative number of cases on the island is 131.

Starting Wednesday, all travelers arriving in Kaua’i will be subject to a 14-day self-quarantine, regardless of the tests.

Our sister broadcaster KGO-TV contacted United Airlines and returned the following statement:

“The health and safety of our employees and customers is our top priority. This is why we have implemented various policies and procedures as part of a layered approach to creating a safer travel environment. Before traveling, all United customers are required to complete a checklist for the Complete Flight Readiness Level confirming no diagnosis of COVID-19 has been made in the past 14 days. We are investigating this matter further to assess the ability of these passengers to fly United in the future. ”

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