RARE Landing on 19L at SFO - With a Panoramic Flight Over San Francisco & the Bay Area - W/ ATC

[@dennisalexanderreilly8624]

in 40 year of flying into SFO, have never landed on 19L with such a clear view

[@wgeffon]

My only time landing on 19L the weather was horrible. Have you ever landed on either of the One’s?

[@mikegray1706]

Me either...didn't recognize it at first. Back in the 60's i took off there always on United.I remember the first 747's used that runway for take off...right next to hwy 101.

[@Hailkingleon]

@@wgeffon I've lived by SFO for the past 8 years, and I can distinctly remember exactly one day in that time that they have had planes landing on the 1s.

[@JediTev]

Looks like it was real windy.

[@SteveHinch]

Years ago I landed the other direction on that runway, which is 1R (usually used for takeoffs.) But that was in a small Metroliner. I couldn’t even figure out where we were going until the pilot made a sharp right turn low over the hills and down to the runway. That was quite the experience.

[@lmkk9118]

At 54 and many many flights later, I have never done that before! Wow! Good job recording it!

[@chrisp8856]

Not only a different approach, but the stability and clarity of the camera’s view is unreal. Fantastic job! Thanks

[@allisonabbott-kline4765]

Absolutely fabulous footage of a SUPER rare landing in SFO. I'm a Bay Area native and 5th generation Californian and the flyover reel was so enjoyable to watch.

[@michaeltyler4034]

In 60 years of flying from and back to SFO I’ve never once landed on 19L. This was a real treat. Thanks for sharing.

[@EhWassAmattaU]

Landing on 19L is very common (anytime a front is passing the Bay Area). Landing on the 10's is rare, landing on 1R is even rarer! In 40 years of Airline flying (and was based in SFO for a while) I have only gone to 01R for landing once. (and it was at night! The RULE is don't fly West of 280!)

[@mauiskater]

I grew up in Millbrae where the airport is. We would watch planes take off and land for fun. This is cool thank you

[@jimmymurphy7789]

My Favorite place to hang-out & watch the planes take off, too !

[@bobbrown8661]

Buttery smooth landing 👍👍

[@StevenBanks123]

Coming in from the north I never know where I am or what anything down there is. The southern approach I could see a couple of places where I lived! I could orient myself so easily. Pacifica, Daly, city, the national cemetery, salesforce, Tower, all the bridges,Yerba Buena and treasure Islands and Alcatraz. Good fun!

[@kellahella5286]

One night at dusk in the mid 80’s I was on a flight from SEA to SFO, landed on 19L. As we flew over the GG the captain put Journey’s When the light go down in the City. It almost brought a tear to my eye.

[@johnmarks714]

Thanks for including the ATC talk

[@mattscarf]

Exactly, with the excellent stabilized video, it couldn’t have done this amazing approach any more justice!

[@3henry214]

Native Bay Area resident and frequent flyer... I've never been on a plane taking that SFO approach/landing, spectacular view of the Peninsula! Was fun seeing my old Pacifica stomping grounds from the air.

[@joeschmoe7221]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@margaretc5554]

Left my heart in San Francisco .... love the view

[@vtdl88]

That Alcatraz and Angel Island view was amazing.

[@gjmob]

I left my hearse at fat sams disco.

[@Emzzz78]

I used to say the same thing until it turned into what it is today. SF is a shell of what it once was. Its heartbreaking.

[@josephnason8770]

The WW2 aircraft carrier USS Hornet just above the engine inlet at 9:32. It picked up Neil Armstrong and crew after the first moon landing in 1969.

[@michaelhayden725]

And also the crew of Apollo 13 I believe!

[@Jeff-yz3on]

During the Battle of Santa Cruz on October 26, 1942, Hornet was attacked by Japanese aircraft whilst her carrier aircraft where returning from damaging the Japanese carrier Shokaku. Despite U.S. destroyers trying to scuttle her, she remained afloat until sunk by torpedoes from Japanese submarines the following day. In late January 2019, research vessel Petrel found the remains of Hornet in the South Pacific near the Solomon Islands. The Hornet you see here came after and did recover the Apollo crew. My dad was on a destroyer in that carrier group.

[@briancrawford69]

Original Hornet was sunk in WW2 ☹️

[@brentsummers7377]

@@michaelhayden725 I think it was a different carrier but I could be wrong.

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

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[@keyrat1753]

Greetings from Miami. I have flown into SFO multiple times from MIA, but never landed on 19L. Absolutely beautiful video. As soon as I finish typing this comment, I want to watch the video again. Thank you!

[@vtdl88]

Haha. I watched it TV on a big screen TV. It is so cool. And I have Google Map to track all the landmark.

[@Patman408]

Great job filming and what a nice tour of the Bay area.

[@BrianKnect]

Loved this video. Brought back a lot of good memories of landing at SFO. Thank you for sharing.

[@ATouchFootballGamer]

I have been on 19L. But, it was so rare to get tho. Good job❤

[@hansfeld5233]

As someone whose been on a plane maybe 5 or 6 times in my life, and from the Bay Area. I love to look at the scenery, this was effin fantastic.

[@sandramccusker5520]

That is so strange. I’ve lived in the Bay Area all of my 56 years. I can’t remember ever seeing a plane fly this approach into SFO.

[@KimaniCrum]

only when the weather gets bad will you see the planes landing and taking off from different directions. Look for it the next time it rains bad here

[@brendanbyrne1769]

That is so strange, because it happens all the time during the winter.

[@Gryphonisle]

Stunning!!! I had no idea the bay end of the old Alameda NAS was so huge. That those runways aren’t being developed for housing should be a crime!

[@awdrifter3394]

The water texture looks so good.

[@jerryburdick8051]

So awesome to see the views from this vantage point. Thank you!

[@Tonyair23]

Bay Area Resident since 2002. I have flown in and out of Oakland and KSFO many times. But seeing an aircraft land on 19L is a very rare experience.

[@redmagnolia6443]

Great video…definitely a unique approach to SFO! Thank you.

[@Ky0927]

Stunning

[@shawnclark2550]

This is neat. I'm a white-knuckle flier but this is almost restful to watch!

[@catzenhouse]

My very first airplane flight was from SeaTac to SF back in the mid-70's. I was positively terrified even though I grew up in the shadow of an AFB and planes/jets and all flew over our family home quite low. The first 747 flight was low and slow over our home (the Boeing plant was on the other end of the runway next door). So lots of watching experience but no flying. The gentleman sitting next to me, a Boeing engineer, could see I was upset and very kindly talked me through the take-off and landing. I'll never forget that man - his kindness made my subsequent flights (not many) much less harrowing. (Nice to see the Transamerica Building from the sky - my dad was part of the crew that installed the windows when the building was under construction.)

[@shawnclark2550]

@@catzenhouse That's so cool! My first flight was about 1988-ish going from PDX to Denver. Had to sit in the smoking section with my aunt. I think that was also the first panic attack I ever had! Ugh.

[@leonardschoenborn9209]

Very nice!!! Beautiful footage of San Francisco, Treasure Island, and the surrounding area.

[@Jedward108]

Beautiful cinematography, nice weather. Thank you.

[@coreyjordan2745]

Thank you, that made my morning.

[@user-eg4jc3xr6d]

Excellent video and appreciate the unique approach - ATC such a nice benefit. Thank you!

[@LAXTravels]

Glad you liked it! Thank you!

[@hopespringseternal2624]

This is very beautiful! Thank you for sharing this!

[@bsylvia1]

Awesome video & aerial tour of the SF Bay Area! Thanks for sharing.

[@robinlathim8221]

Great video! ❤

[@41Forethought]

Thank you for the great video. It brought back a few SFO landings, including two on 19L. The first was during an intense rainstorm with epic turbulence, a real white knuckle landing; the second on a clear moonlit night. Couldn't see anything until we descended through about 1000' during the storm but the views during the night landing were truly breathtaking. 😮

[@zacharynorman397]

This is certainly a unique way to approach SFO. And so cool to see Half Moon Bay. Flown my little single engine prop plane in there multiple times.

[@NsixVHF]

Nice Vid! Killer approach!

[@Presidiogary]

Very very beautiful footage! Thank you for sharing it!

[@naturalthomas9157]

Thanks for sharing that with us! Thankful to have had that experience once. The pilot made an announcement to let us know we had a treat coming. Then In 2022 I did a lot of cruises out of Pier 27 to Mexico and Alaska and sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge. Very cool to have driven over, sailed under, and flown over the Golden Gate Bridge. Northern California is so beautiful and I am so glad I moved from the east to the west years ago. The West is the Best, sang Jim Morrison.

[@MrOilpainter]

Cool view. Great tour of the Bay Area.

[@wfwillis]

Nice view of Yuba Buena Island and Treasure Island. I spent 6 years on Treasure Island (plus 2 more living in Naval Housing while attending ADCOP at Foothill College) while serving in the Navy in the 60s and 70s. CWO4 USN Ret.

[@zublacus]

Growing up in Burlingame, it was a great treat at Burlingame Intermediate School when planes were landing on 1L and 1R. That was usually a winter/spring thing that can happen. I worked at SFO later in life at DHL, and I have no recollection of 19L/R being used. So it is indeed rare.

[@frankflstf]

That was beautiful and much appreciated thank you for sharing

[@qumqats]

Way COOL to see this, completely different perspective, surprised by how many ships are moored in the bay awaiting unloading, thinks for the video

[@Cmoredebris]

When the winds were out of the south, usually during bad storms, they would use those runways and the departures would come right over our house. Their ground speed was low so the jets seemed to hover before disappearing into the clouds. Scary.

[@Offroader451-rm5jz]

Beautiful, never landed on 19L in all the years of flying into S.F., or out.

[@TonydeBellis-iq6ly]

Love this - it’s expensive to live in the Bay Area but worth it

[@mattfriese7160]

Absolutely incredible the miracle that is human flight. Thanks for sharing

[@clarkmadrosen1780]

Looked so easy to do ? Great job😊

[@Abraham-uk4xy]

Superb video. Gentle landing.

[@МихаилЭман-в8е]

Excellent video!

[@ophthodawg]

Very cool, i spent that weekend on my boat at Encinal YC, good plane spotting as the lineup was nearly overhead , definitely a rare approach pattern indeed

[@fbella69]

Buttery landing right there

[@duncanbrode381]

JUST beautiful! THANKS for sharing!

[@DennisSmithAIStockImageClub]

So cool!

[@dougchinn2820]

19R/L into SFO is one of the best landings. The route loops around SF, over the GG Bridge, around Treasure Island, over Emeryville, around OAK before landing in SFO. Half expected the stewardess' to give a minute-by-minute commentary. I've landed on 19R/L only once in all the years of flying. It's a treat. Can understand why the noise of planes flying over residential areas make this a rarity.

[@craftykoala]

Looking forward to the second follow up to this!

[@TheGrandPoohPaw]

Like flying home again. I haven’t lived in the Bay Area since I was 21, but I still looked at the ground with the familiarity of having been on virtually all of it. Great capture!

[@cageordie]

Great video, and it is a very unusual approach, only used a few times each year. Sadly it's the former NAS Alameda Point, closed about 1998. You missed the Hornet which is docked at Alameda Point and has been for as long as I remember. It was part of the 1995 celebration of the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII and opened as a museum ship in August 1998.

[@christophermarks6260]

Hornet in view around 8:45.

[@familianigasak]

Having spent most of my life on the northern Peninsula (San Bruno and Brisbane), I'm so used to planes landing from the south and taking off to the north. Such a rarity when I see planes fly in/out from any other direction, and you were fortunate to do it on a clear day!

[@leagueofshadows]

I used to live in Brisbane Australia 🌏🦘😊😅 on the other side of the Pacific 😅😅😅😅

[@kristenkunkel3745]

The beauty of the Bay Area and both bridges at the same time nice camera work 😊

[@LTV_inc]

Cool! You did a lap of where I grew up, when the gear hits and the speed brakes deploy it feels so good to be home, it never gets old…. 😊

[@dq1275]

I've landed on 19L many times. For some reason it's the go to during inclement weather. The rare landing is 1L/1R. Once in the 1980s, a massive plane crossed over the freeway while I was in our family car on a 1L/1R approach. It was massive. My Dad later said he heard on the news it was having trouble; first, last, and only time I ever saw that.

[@robpinon309]

Wow, we always used 1R to depart, never landed on 19L. Of course, the same runway in opposite directions. You fine video makes me wish I were on that plane now! Thanks so much for no silly narrative and keeping the camera steady. Good to hear ATC, too.

[@cynthiacarter532]

Grew up there 1954-1975 literally within sight (and sound) of the airport and never saw a landing in this direction. Coming in from the west and landing on that runway was also rare and flew right over my high school. Very low, loud and cast shadows over the school!

[@kossboss]

landings on rw 1R or 1L? i thought thats what this one was gonna do until i painted the compasss in my head and realized its gonna come in from the east

[@41Forethought]

We lived in the San Bruno hills for a year in the mid 70s. Planes landing on 10R would pass right over our apartment, often so low that we could see passengers in the aircraft windows. Jumbo jet flyovers literally shook the apartment. Our parakeet never adapted to those landings; Reuben the Birthday Bird was VERY thankful that landings on 10R were fairly rare! 🛬

[@el_puma_real]

This is fantastic ❤ Love my hometown!

[@inqwit1]

Nice

[@coreyjordan2745]

I love to travel. I love to fly. Traveling is the best thing in the world. Keep traveling.

[@lindaromero7780]

Very cool! I’ve always flown in from the South. Never saw this before.

[@sschwen8050]

I lived in the Bay Area for about 7 years total. We landed once on 19L.

[@natemiller8194]

Awesome video of coming in over the East bay

[@RealSteveTheGoat]

Awesome video! What a great experience.

[@jawoody9745]

I love living here in San Francisco. I love flying over it. I landed on 19L only once, returning from London on Pan Am in 1986.

[@ptcla]

Fantastic, very scenic video. Thanks for posting!

[@jetPower1960]

Great video. Thank you.

[@ProFlightAviation]

I recently (2 months ago) saw a British Airways A380 take off from one of the 19s not sure which one because i was kinda far but it was the first time i had seen it.

[@ronhyde]

Great video and what a treat with the flight path and rare landing on that runway!

[@LAXTravels]

Glad you liked it! Yeah it was a great flight path in! The 30-40 minute holding pattern we did just prior to landing was pretty scenic too.

[@alpenglow4243]

Lived near SFO for years and I only remember seeing planes use that runway twice.

[@mtascp05]

This year and last, I’ve seen it a few times as I was waiting for my flight. It was in the rainy season and it was strange to see these widebodies land on the short runways.

[@AirwickY]

SO COOL! I think because maybe because 28L is closed and there were strong winds that day, but no clouds prompted atc to redirect planes onto 19L? Not sure, feel free to recorrect me but REALLY COOL!!!

[@rael5469]

10:06 you can see the landing gear extend in the reflection of the engine cowling. That's a clean machine.

[@arianadelsur1604]

Awesome! I have been flying from SFO for 40 years and never experienced a day like this one landing. Thank you for sharing! Now you know why is so hard to leave the Bay Area

[@Kylefassbinderful]

As a lifelong bay area resident this was treat to watch, thank you!

[@LanndynCarnateBowling]

Thk u posting video 🤙

[@antoniovalle7071]

I lived in Pacifica for 30 years. Only a few times I seen airplanes approaching from the ocean. I hear that southwest winds are rare. I seen planes taking off towards the South Bay only a couple of times

[@dfa3366]

Very nice. They sometimes use 19L for landings because of weather or runway maintenance.

[@captaincrunch8523]

Thanks for posting !Excellent ! My old digs

[@da73]

@2:57 I can make out the street I used to live at in Daly City. What a nice perspective to see of it. I wonder what conditions cause them to use this approach

[@eddavis447]

That was awesome! I've never seen a 19 landing!

[@BrianLarin]

I used San Jose for domestic flights and SFO for international flights. Great way to see the whole area.

[@keithevans5409]

Stunning!

[@lanbaode]

Great! Thanks.

[@lindaloe]

Lovely!!❤

[@baconlatte]

Wow such clean and clear views

[@maxst415]

Not only is a 19L landing rare, doing so with clear weather is even less common. Usually theres's some big weather system blowing strong winds from the south, along with precipitation and cloud cover. First time I ever saw a plane take this route over the city, I was pretty concerned since it didn't follow any patterns I had seen before haha

[@sanfranciscobay]

Before the Rain and Clouds come, they land facing South West.

[@DavidFRhodes]

more flights used to go over the city. but then 9/11 happened.

[@maxst415]

yea that was before my time as i wasn't born until after @@DavidFRhodes

[@111danish111]

Excellent quality from that 1 inch pocket 3.

[@melodiefrances3898]

Tbh, I hate flying into SFO, but I love seeing this video.

[@Emzzz78]

Me too! I use Sacramento mostly and Oakland only if I have to. SFO only when I’m flying to Toronto to visit family.

[@calpal9983]

Gorgeous!!

[@vtm914]

I can see SFO from my window and this winter with all the storms I have seen this approach often. I see their landing lights stacked up on this approach in some of the nastiest weather; high wind and sideways rain. In that kind of weather in the past they come in on 10R or 10L but with the construction I haven’t seen it this year. But the most rare approach is 1R or Left which comes in over highway 101; I’ve seen a changed approach right overhead coming in for 28L and then switching at the last moment to 1R which did a low altitude banking right turn over Millbrae Ave. to land on 1R., that is a rarest approach at SFO and I was blown away to see it live. I’ll never forget it.

[@emilianoramirez5398]

Very Neat and rare aproach

[@LAXTravels]

With clear visibility too!

[@FizzarolliFr0ggie]

United Airlines 777-300er on approach to SFO (San Francisco INTL Airport) runway 28R Camera position: window seat on left of economy class row 37