"Air Canada 781, go around ... "

Did many Canadian YouTube subscribers get the above "short" from the algorithm today?

They are digging deep. Back to 2017.

The "shorts" (under a minute) are YouTube's attempt to snare TikTok's young fan base who  now measure attention span in milliseconds.

This short is 37 seconds.

Eyeball food. Clicks.

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Here's a San Jose Mercury News story:

Air Canada, Oct. 22, 2017

Air Canada flight 781 was cleared to land on Runway 28R about six miles from (San Francisco) airport, which the crew acknowledged, but then radio contact ended with the tower. 

The air traffic controller, worried another plane had not cleared that runway, ordered the Air Canada plane to abort its landing six times with no response from the flight crew. 

 The tower went as far as shining a light into the cockpit of the approaching plane in an unsuccessful attempt to get the flight crew’s attention.

The other plane had cleared the runway by the time the Air Canada jet touched down and landed safely. 

The (Federal Aviation Authority) concluded after speaking to the flight crew and probing other data that the “crew inadvertently switched from the SFO tower frequency to the SFO ground frequency after receiving their landing clearance.”

“The FAA deemed this event to be an isolated occurrence and not reflective of any systematic deficiencies at Air Canada,” according to a FAA spokesman.