On December 16th, 2016 an EVA Air 777 flying from Los Angeles to Taipei had a hard time following instructions from SoCal Departure.
The crew of the EVA flight were given nonstandard instructions such as "turn southbound" which probably confused them. The controller also didn't initially tell them whether to turn left or right. So the EVA flight stayed on a northbound heading despite SoCal Departure telling them to turn southbound multiple times. The flight also missed a mountain by about 500 ft before they finally turned southbound.
