Southwest lands at wrong airport?

[WhatRJ]

Developing story. Apparently the airport they landed at and the airport they were destined to were very close to each other.

http://www.ky3.com/news/local/south...on/-/21048998/23895418/-/mrx15ez/-/index.html

 

[Screaming_Emu]

At least it was mains first.

 

[crazyjaydawg]

The comments are winning. "air-port" lol

 

[Box hauler]

You would imagine that flying a modern glass cockpit airplane would make this hard to do.

 

[Ayork62493]

Ouch..

 

[Winglet]

Thats impossible! How could this happen???? The new rest rules were supposed to make pilots so rested that they didn't make these kinds of mistakes!


*sigh*

This sucks. Hope these guys manage to keep their jobs...

 

[SeanD]

This would have never happened if it was an A320.

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

This would have never happened if it was an A320.

I know. They crash (land) into trees!

 

[Ayork62493]

If I'm looking at the right airport, only 4000 feet on runway... Impressive, Atleast I think from my extremely limited knowledge of transport category jet performance.

Any ways, it sucks that mistakes don't get to just slide by. But when 100+ people are affected there will be consequences.

 

[gotWXdagain]

Impressive piece of piloting to put it down and get it stopped on 3700 feet, with a drop off if you aren't successful...

...but given the circumstances, this flight doesn't technically meet the requirements to be considered a success.

 

[arkflyr]

Happens more often than one would think.

http://www.thirdamendment.com/wrongway.html

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

Happens more often than one would think.

http://www.thirdamendment.com/wrongway.html

Well... that obviously happened because it wasn't a NEO!

 

[Cessnaflyer]

"Got any shortcuts for us, sweetie?"

 

[staledog]

Nice.

 

[Kingairer]

3738 x 100 ft. / 1139 x 30 m

 

[SeanD]

3738 x 100 ft. / 1139 x 30 m

Yikes. This could have turned out a lot worse.

 

[jgheggie]

ATC: "SW4013 report airport insight"
SW4013: "aaaahh rooogggeeer"
SW4013: "***---** is that?...."
SW4013: " roger in sight"
HOMER: "doh!"

 

[arkflyr]

Here is another link about this kind of thing, and one of the first uses of ASRS and how the FAA reacted.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GbgdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Jl0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3980,3330661

Note the fact the Western at the time used second officers in the 737, another footnote in history.

 

[surreal1221]

Is it just me or is Southwest generating a lot of publicity over the past year and a couple days?

 

[Hopeful Pilot]

There's no atc feed of this aiport on liveatc.net, I am kind of disappointed.