{"id":224404,"date":"2026-03-17T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224404\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:22:07","slug":"faa-flags-sfo-oakland-airports-as-hot-spots-for-close-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224404\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA flags SFO, Oakland airports as \u2018hot spots\u2019 for close calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine of those airports were in the Bay Area, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/air_traffic\/flight_info\/aeronav\/digital_products\/dafd\/search\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">FAA charts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA defines an \u201cairport surface hot spot\u201d as a place where pilots must use extra caution to avoid mistakes due to \u201ca history or potential risk of collision or runway incursion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FAA does not classify the airports as unsafe. Instead, the agency uses the list to highlight tricky intersections and taxi routes so pilots can plan ahead and reduce risk.<\/p>\n<p>At SFO, the FAA highlighted four locations. In one, pilots taxiing east on Taxiway B sometimes turn onto the wrong path. In another, pilots have been known to miss a turn and cross an active runway. Two additional areas involve confusion about where to stop before crossing runways, particularly where markings may be harder to see.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA did not provide specific examples or a document of when these incidents occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland had three listed areas. In one, pilots can confuse similarly labeled taxiways where they cross a runway. In another, planes leaving the gate area sometimes miss turns and continue toward a runway. A third involves a stretch of taxiway where the risk of entering a runway without clearance is higher.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for SFO and Oakland did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Other Bay Area airports on the list included Buchanan Field in Concord, Hayward Executive, Livermore Municipal, Napa County Airport, Mineta San Jose International, Reid-Hillview Airport and Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, more than 150 airports appear on the FAA\u2019s hot-spot list, which was created to improve awareness of safety risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine of those airports were in the Bay Area, according to FAA charts. The FAA defines an \u201cairport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[184,7,332,143,145,144,395,101,2422],"class_list":["post-224404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-east-bay","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-peninsula","tag-san-francisco","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}