Safety
NTSB Chairman Calls Notams 'Garbage'
July 2017 incident at SFO prompts NTSB to call for a “more effective presentation of flight operations information to optimize pilot review and retention."

NTSB chairman Robert Sumwalt called the Notam system in the U.S. “messed up” this week during a hearing on the July 7, 2017 incident at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in which an Air Canada Airbus A320 nearly landed on a crowded taxiway. The crew mistook the taxiway as their cleared runway—28R—because Runway 28L was closed. The pilots failed to catch that note on page eight of the 27-page list of the SFO Notams.