Dreamlifter lands at wrong airport and can't take off

[Malko]

Thousands of uneventful landings and then one little "ooops I landed a 747 at the wrong airport" and all of the sudden it's news!

Maybe the earth shifted ...? Instead of renumbering the rw's, i suppose hte airports could have jsut shifted...

Havent seen it mentioned, but:

Are the rw's identical in numbering?
Any other similarities between the fields....?

At what point in a 74 landing is the thought 'Oh sheet, we have the wrong field' too late?

 

[Screaming_Emu]

It should. 709's for everybody!

Oh good! You're back!

 

[Malko]

Have you ever lined up to land in a trailer park? Am I a winner?

Never attemtped a landing at a trailer park, but I did find myself circling a water tower to get my bearings on the map (during private solo x/c) only to find that they were sand blasting the tower that day so there was no name on it.... Arghhh !

 

[Autothrust Blue]

I don't disagree with you, because I do the same thing but...

Fatigue will make you do some really, really, really strange things, like not load the approach when you normally do. And maybe the guy next to you who also normally loads the approach misses it because they're dog tired, as does the third guy who is half asleep.

Fatigue effects are indeed strange, and they're also cumulative. Motor skills, decision-making skills, all suffer.

Have you ever lined up to land in a trailer park? Am I a winner?

Now I know everyone wants to be able to park their Brasilia/F-14/whatever in their front yards, but you must have been in a grand hurry to get home.

 

[Screaming_Emu]

Never attemtped a landing at a trailer park, but I did find myself circling a water tower to get my bearings on the map (during private solo x/c) only to find that they were sand blasting the tower that day so there was no name on it.... Arghhh !

I call that using all available resources.

 

[mikecweb]

I'll bet some evergreen folks are LTFAO.

Well they are all losing their jobs in a couple weeks so bet most of them are hoping Atlas hires.

 

[Pilot Fighter]

Fatigue effects are indeed strange, and they're also cumulative. Motor skills, decision-making skills, all suffer.


Now I know everyone wants to be able to park their Brasilia/F-14/whatever in their front yards, but you must have been in a grand hurry to get home.

Fun is affordable at the trailer park.

 

[Malko]

I call that using all available resources.

It was an attempt for sure.....My instructor told me about that little hint. I figured no problem. i'll get my bearings and get back on my way to KSTC...Imagine my mind when there was no name on the water tower....."You got to be shltting me..." In the end I made it iwht only a slight delay....

 

[Screaming_Emu]

It was an attempt for sure.....My instructor told about that. I figured no problem. i'll get my bearings and get back on my way to KSTC...Imagine my mind when there was no name on the water tower....."You got to be shltting me..." In the end I made it iwht only a slight delay....

Flying out there is challenging. All roads run north/south or east/west. The sectional might say there is a town somewhere, but it's really a post office, bar, and three houses.

 

[Out and Proud]

You know that of course because.....

Because..... They landed at the WRONG airport.

 

[PhilosopherPilot]

Don't feed the troll folks.

 

[Pilot Fighter]

Don't feed the monkey.

 

[TripSix]

Audio snippet in story:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/passantino/...y-lands-at-a-tiny-kansas-airport-and?s=mobile

 

[Out and Proud]

Why are you guys so quick to defend the crew that did one of the most egregious things in aviation.... land at the WRONG airport?

 

[A Life Aloft]

Don't feed the troll folks.

Don't forget, he's a Sim Instructor!

 

[mikecweb]

Why are you guys so quick to defend the crew that did one of the most egregious things in aviation.... land at the WRONG airport?

Because crap happens, we don't know the circumstances, and if you can't see yourself making the same mistake you'll probably be the next.

 

[TWP]

Fatigue.

My first thought when I hear any incident involving cargo operations. Some of these companies have insane work schedules! Even if they weren't, the pilots would be smart to claim they were fatigued.

 

[Malko]

Don't feed the troll folks.

 

[Hacker15e]

I've spent a good amount of time flying instrument approaches into McConnell (it is a location where we often take students to practice instrument work away from home station).

Most of the time the radar pattern at McConnell is to the west, and the base leg typically has us flying east about 9 or 10 miles out from the runway, with BCT at our 12:30 to one o'clock and IAB at our 2 o'clock or so. From that perspective, it is really difficult to mix the two up.

BCT is a comparatively big runway, though, and with the same orientation as IAB. I can see that if you were on a very long final from the north or the south (but especially from the northeast, like the Atlas crew did) at night, and NOT backing yourself up with the Localizer, how you could bite off on it.

 

[Out and Proud]

Ahhh... the JC clique strikes again. If you're not a flaming left wing libtard that takes zero personal responsibility for anything and that big government can and should fix everything, you are a troll.