San Francisco International Airport safety profile
36 recorded occurrences at or near San Francisco International Airport (1982–2026): 4 at the airport, 32 nearby; 2 fatal, 6 fatalities.
What happens most
Runway incursions
The FAA Runway Safety database records 344 runway incursions at this airport, including 6 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2019-08-06 — UNITED AIR LINES INC — 1.4 km
- 2017-07-08 — Air Canada — 1.6 km
- 2017-02-16 — Embraer ERJ170, Compass Airlines — 1.7 km
- 2016-12-15 — Skywest Airlines — 0.1 km
- 2016-04-29 — SKYWEST AIRLINES INC — 0.1 km
- 2012-02-04 — SkyWest Airlines — 0.1 km
- 2010-12-25 — Southwest Airlines — 0.1 km
- 2010-03-27 — UNITED AIR LINES INC — 18.3 km
- 2008-01-14 — United Express — 0.1 km
Runways
- 10L/28R: 11,870 ft, ASP, lighted
- 10R/28L: 11,381 ft, ASP, lighted
- 1R/19L: 8,660 ft, ASP, lighted
- 1L/19R: 7,650 ft, ASP, lighted
Weather patterns
- Fog: 6.899 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 3.3 days/year
- Snow: 0.2 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0.083% of observations
- Crosswind >25kt: 0% of observations
Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.