C-17 lands at Peter O'Night instead of MacDill

[CFI A&P]

Anyone else here about this?

My smart phone is playing dumb. Can't find anything on it.

 

[drunkenbeagle]

Anyone else here about this?

My smart phone is playing dumb. Can't find anything on it.

landed right behind one at Lakeland once, they can stop pretty short!

 

[mikecweb]

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/2170/7ek.mp4
Video of it landing.

 

[drunkenbeagle]

http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-n...argo-plane-lands-at-davis-islands--ar-437276/

Oops!

 

[derg]

I set up for a sweet pattern to McDill by accident years ago. Right after telling my story about Offut AFB...

 

[Jpax]

They were just practicing those assault landings, duh!

 

[MikeOH58]

Anyone else here about this?

My smart phone is playing dumb. Can't find anything on it.

If this wasn't an emergency or pre-planned then I feel comfortable saying, apparently not the only one playing dumb today.

 

[crazyjaydawg]

If this wasn't an emergency or pre-planned then I feel comfortable saying, apparently not the only one playing dumb today.

Apparently the AF hires ex-colgan pilots...

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

So are a few pilots careers over? Permanently assigned to a desk?

 

[ackeight]

Mistaking an 11K foot runway for a 3.5K foot runway is career suicide. Hard to explain that one.

 

[Skåning]

Mistaking an 11K foot runway for a 3.5K foot runway is career suicide. Hard to explain that one.

Not to mention there's no military planes on the ramp!

 

[🦈💜]

God, what a plane.

 

[AviatorGator]

Wow, there's just no excuse for this. Talk about a lack of situational awareness. Fortunately no one was hurt and nothing was bent in the process.

 

[derg]

It's an easy mistake to make though. Lots of guys chomp at the bits for the non-flying pilot to report "We've got the airport in sight!" and don't actually have the correct airport in sight.


Sent from my TRS-80

 

[drunkenbeagle]

Mistaking an 11K foot runway for a 3.5K foot runway is career suicide. Hard to explain that one.

The charts are CLEARLY MARKED to use caution not to confuse the two fields, they have the same runway numbers...

I think that warning was meant for GA pilots...

 

[jafra98]

There's no excuse for the wrong airport landing but the plane is designed to handle such short runways...........

 

[turbomax97]

Friend of mine watched it come over his house earlier today.... he mentioned that this isn't the first time that's happened.

 

[USMCmech]

The charts are CLEARLY MARKED to use caution not to confuse the two fields, they have the same runway numbers...

I think that warning was meant for GA pilots...

When I was at Flight Safety Academy in VRB, we had as student do a touch and go at McDill thinking it was this airport. I NEVER would have thought an AirForce crew would make the reverse mistake.

That said, the C-17 can stop on a dime. We had them land at Quantico which only had a 4K runway. They couldn't take off with any cargo however.

 

[drunkenbeagle]

Wow, there's just no excuse for this. Talk about a lack of situational awareness. Fortunately no one was hurt and nothing was bent in the process.

I'll take the other side on this one.

The two airports look *identical* from the air, are right next to each other, on identical peninsulas. Runway numbers are the same.

Has happened before, will happen again. Fortunately nothing broke and no one got hurt (this time)

When approach tells you "cleared for the visual 27" and you are staring at 27, easy to do when you are tired.

 

[bunk22]

To early to call as to why it landed there. Possible screw up for sure but it's conjecture. If you don't think it can't happen to you as a pilot, think again. These guys just flew a long flight from overseas? Fatigue, stress, etc could cause issues with SA.