Posted on 12/29/2023 11:38:12 AM PST by Red Badger
Their first clue should have been no visible runaway marker lights.
Back in the 70’s, a commercial airliner accidentally landed at the Troutdale, Oregon airport which is about 5 miles east of Portland International. IIRC, both pilots were terminated soon thereafter.
Then they had to figure out how to get it off the 5,300 foot runway
C-17 Globemaster lands at civilian airport.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/air-force-c-17-globemaster-iii-makes-surprise-landing-at-peter-o-knight/1241349/
Runway...frozen river. It’s easy to make such a mistake. It happens to all of us. Once, I turned onto a roadway and discovered it was river, or maybe it was a train track. I truly can’t remember. Oh, never mind. That never happened. Although once as a teen and on an extremely foggy night I turned onto the incorrect road when heading home.
Really though, how does a pilot make such a mistake? Between computers and pilot experience one would think that error would be impossible to make.
Now that I’ve commented and in the great FR tradition of posting first and reading the article later, I’ll go back and read the full article.
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