WI Air Canada Flight 759 crashes

In 2017 an Air Canada flight came seconds away from smashing into two San Francisco departing airliners

https://medium.com/@admiralcloudberg/the-near-crash-of-air-canada-flight-759-c61094867d45

...In the 13 seconds before the go-around was initiated, the A320 was descending at a rate of about 8.5 feet per second with a ground speed of about 200 feet per second. This would have been just enough to miss the 55-foot-tall tailfin of the Philippine A340, assuming the pilots didn’t change their groundspeed or descent rate. Less than seven seconds after the time of the actual go-around, flight 759 would have slammed headlong into the roof of the Sydney-bound United Airlines Boeing 787. Since the plane kept descending for two seconds after beginning the go-around, it can be concluded that if the crew had delayed their go-around by just five seconds, they would have collided with the 787. The controller ordered the go-around four seconds after the pilots initiated it. Therefore, if the pilots had relied on the controller’s order, they would have had only one second to avert disaster. There is reason to doubt that this would have been sufficient.

If flight 759 had collided with the roof of the United 787, it would have easily ripped through the top of the cabin, crushing many of its occupants and leaving the survivors with only a narrow window to escape the inevitable inferno. The rear of the plane would likely have been totally destroyed. The main body of the Air Canada A320 would then have continued onward, striking the United 737 head-on only one or two seconds later. Both aircraft would likely have been destroyed by the impact or by fire with few, if any, survivors. The number of people on board the 787 and the 737 is not known, but if both were at 75% capacity, then the death toll could have been as high as 460. If both planes were full, then it could have rivaled the Tenerife Disaster.

This would have been the first fatal airline accident in the US since 2009. For it to be caused by the Air Canada pilots fatigue is not going to leave the airline looking good.

What effects could this possibly have in Canada or the US?
 
Well we can all say that the title of "safest" year in air travel does not go to 2017...

But this disaster is most likely going to rival and surpass the Tenerife

This video will give us the idea of how close the planes actually were OTL.
 
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