Southwest Airlines flight lands at wrong airport

RotorAndWing said:
Again, please show us where it was discovered they failed to do this? Are you privy to the investigation? Do you actually have any facts??
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Well, if they DID do this and still landed at the wrong airport then, well...
 
Henning said:
Considering how many flights occur per any given day, those are not contradictory statements.
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I didn't intend to imply that they were. I was intrigued by the numbers, though, if they are correct.
 
Rex Kramer said:
You joke, the first time I flew from Tokyo to Singapore, or even been to Singapore, was the other guy's first trip to Singapore.
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Not many island cities in the middle of the Pacific Ocean though . . . its not like you were gonna land at Kai Tak by mistake!
 
comanchepilot said:
Not many island cities in the middle of the Pacific Ocean though . . . its not like you were gonna land at Kai Tak by mistake!
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Singapore...in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? :confused: Singapore is one of thousands of islands in SE Asia at the tip of Malaysia. It lies just outside the Malaca Straights, confluence of the Pacific (actually South China Sea) and Indian Oceans
 
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Steve Blow at Dallas MN reminds us to err is human and point out some other Rick Perry ooops like moments!
Like when Jose Canseco missed the fly ball, it hit his head and went over the wall for a home run.
Leo Lett touching the football.
And a local new caster reporting a mountain climber had made it to the peek and he was "gay" when she meant blind :)

Best,

Dave
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I think they were to busy trying to fill out the Obama care insurance application on their iPads and just PANICKED. LOL
 
NTSB Press Release

During the interviews, the pilots told investigators that the approach had been programmed into their flight management system, but that they first saw the airport beacon and the runway lights of M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport, located in Hollister, Mo., which they mistakenly identified as Branson Airport. They cited the bright runway lights at M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport and the fact that the runway was oriented in a similar direction. They also informed investigators that they flew a visual approach into what they believed to be Branson Airport and that they did not realize they were at the wrong airport until they had landed. They confirmed that they utilized heavy braking to bring the aircraft to a stop and then advised the Branson Airport tower that they had landed at the wrong airport.
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http://www.ntsb.gov/news/2014/140117.html
 
Ummm...

Rotor....

Ummm...

Wing...

Pick up the white courtesy phone.
 
They at least figured it out on their own where they landed. The Atlas crew had to ask the FBO guy in a truck for directions.
 
timwinters said:
Ummm...

Rotor....

Ummm...

Wing...

Pick up the white courtesy phone.
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OK, back up to the approach briefing. Did they set electronic aids? Did they verify? Configuration of the PFD/ND? Once they saw the lights did they compare what they saw outside to the display?

Right now it sounds like they just skipped over to a visual once the airport was spotted.

Will be interesting to see more data evolve.
 
Greg Bockelman said:
That is pretty much the same scenario that we were in. We were inbound to Harrisburg, PA, KMDT when we saw the nice bright runway lights at Capital City, KCXY. We figured it out before we got too far into it, but I can TOTALLY see how that happened.
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Hence the breakdown here. You had the presence of mind to question what you saw and verify. The question here is why these guys failed in that part.
 
Greg Bockelman said:
That is pretty much the same scenario that we were in. We were inbound to Harrisburg, PA, KMDT when we saw the nice bright runway lights at Capital City, KCXY. We figured it out before we got too far into it, but I can TOTALLY see how that happened.
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Well hell, you shoulda been fired. :no:
 
Greg Bockelman said:
That is pretty much the same scenario that we were in. We were inbound to Harrisburg, PA, KMDT when we saw the nice bright runway lights at Capital City, KCXY. We figured it out before we got too far into it, but I can TOTALLY see how that happened.
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I've almost done it twice going into El Paso! We'd come out of mountains to the east, low on fuel, and intercept the straight-in. With the late day sun in your face, Biggs AAF and El Paso look nearly identical. If you're a little north of centerline, Biggs would usually be the first rwy you'd see.
 
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