United A320 at San Francisco on May 13th 2025, turned wrong way on climb out, near collision
Last Update: May 30, 2025 / 18:39:52 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
May 13, 2025
Classification
Incident
Airline
United
Flight number
UA-1152
Departure
San Francisco, United States
Destination
Dallas Ft. Worth, United States
Aircraft Registration
N4901U
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
Airport ICAO Code
KSFO
A Skywest Canadair CRJ-200 on behalf of United, registration N246PS performing flight UA-5273 from San Francisco,CA to Fresno,CA (USA), was cleared for takeoff from runway 01L at about the same time and was in the initial climb, when the crew told ATC they were maneouvering due to traffic.
According to ADS-B data the separation between the two aircraft reduced to about 300 feet vertical and less than 0.24nm horizontal.
After the call by Skywest ATC instructed the Skywest to turn left onto heading 350, United to turn onto runway heading, asked how UA-1152 managed to get there, repeated the instruction to turn onto runway heading which again reduced separation between the aircraft before ATC finally recognized the situation in full and instructed the United to turn left to 280 immediately. Subsequently the aircraft settled on diverging flight pathes and continued to their destinations without further incident.
According to preliminary information UA-1152 had prepared for the TRUKN 2 departure from runway 28R sending the aircraft onto an initial heading of 284 degrees and had not adjusted for the departure from runway 01R.
Metars:
KSFO 140156Z 27016G26KT 10SM FEW035 14/09 A3005 RMK AO2 PK WND 27028/0108 SLP177 T01440089=
KSFO 140056Z 27023G30KT 10SM FEW035 16/09 A3006 RMK AO2 PK WND 27030/0055 SLP179 T01560094=
KSFO 132356Z 29021G29KT 10SM FEW037 17/08 A3006 RMK AO2 PK WND 27029/2348 SLP178 T01670083 10189 20156 58005=
KSFO 132256Z 29019KT 10SM FEW037 17/08 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP183 T01720078=
KSFO 132156Z 27014KT 10SM SCT037 19/08 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP182 T01890078=
KSFO 132056Z 30014G20KT 10SM SCT034 19/09 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP184 T01890089 58002=
Aircraft Registration Data
Incident Facts
Date of incident
May 13, 2025
Classification
Incident
Airline
United
Flight number
UA-1152
Departure
San Francisco, United States
Destination
Dallas Ft. Worth, United States
Aircraft Registration
N4901U
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
Airport ICAO Code
KSFO
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