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(Reuters) - When it came time to land at San Francisco on July 7, 2017, the pilots of an Air Canada jet could not recall a critical piece of information buried on page eight of a 27-page briefing package: the closure of one of the airport’s two runways.
Mistaking the runway they were cleared to land on for the one that was closed, the fatigued pilots chose the wrong reference point and lined up to land on a parallel taxiway instead. They came within seconds of colliding with four planes.
More than three years later, a global campaign has been launched to improve aviation safety by reducing the kind of information overload experienced by the pilots of Air Canada 759.
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March 2 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras, Roberto Castello Branco, said on Tuesday that biofuels, especially those for the aviation industry, will be key for “de-carbonizing” transportation in the years to come, a key goal for energy transition.
Brazil, a major corn and sugarcane producer, is also a large consumer of domestic ethanol, with pure gasoline supplies being a rarity. (Reporting by Gram Slattery and Marianna Parraga Editing by Chris Reese)