What plane?
It left Peter O. Knight Airport Friday night...
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Posted on 07/22/2012 7:21:23 AM PDT by csvset
” Oops! “
The pilot just *knew* he shoulda took dat left toin at Albakoikey.....
Link it satellite picture of the two airports. The base is south west of where he landed. Slight difference in the size of the places that should be noticeable.
As you can see in the video, the C-17, with its load considerably lightened, left Peter O. Knight Airport on Friday evening for the short hop to MacDill.
No excuse for this sort of thing, but it has happened. There are three airfields in close proximity in Tampa; Peter O. Knight (general aviation); Tampa International and MacDill AFB. Pilots fly roughly the same approach heading for all three runways and if you’re not careful, you’ll find yourself lined up for the wrong runway at the wrong airport.
Over the past 30 years, there have been at least four planes that have landed at the wrong airport in Tampa. Most have been jetliners heading to Tampa International who touched down at MacDill instead. Quite a feat of airmanship to stop the C-17 on Knight’s 3,000 foot runway, and get it airborne from the same strip.
The C-17 in question was returning from Southwest Asia, with 19 crew members and 23 passengers. Appears to have been a rotator flight, with C-17 crews returning to the states after a deployment. The normal crew for a C-17 on this flight would be 2-3 pilots and 2-3 loadmasters. Incidentally, the C-17 and its crew are assigned to the 305th Airlift Wing at McGuire AFB, NJ.
Why don't they ask the pilot?
I’ll give him an “A” for the landing.
And a “D-” for the navigation.
I think the pilot just felt like showing off the capabilities of the C-17. Pretty awesome if you ask me!!!
This year’s bumper crop from the Golden Triangle?
Mena lives.
Stopped on a dime and gave nine cents in change.
Something is not stacking up here. If this was just a mistake how did they know to do this...?
Minutes later, witnesses saw a caravan of military vehicles respond to the runway, retrieve the crew and begin to haul away cargo.
Minutes? Those boys were in a pretty big hurry to get whatever off the plane. I would think someone with shiny things on their uniform would want to have a look-see first.
http://kathrynaviationnews.com/?p=70268
Also...
Peter O. Knight Airport is temporarily closed as the Air Force works to move the plane, Tampa International spokeswoman Janet Zink said.
But yesterday they said this.
The drama ended at 8:27 p.m., when the C-17 Globemaster III took a hop over Hillsborough Bay to MacDill, the original destination. It landed just a few minutes later.
http://kathrynaviationnews.com/?p=70268
Sooo, there is a C-17 that lands off-base with a "caravan" of cargo trucks that arrive in "minutes" and the aircraft returns to MacDill at exactly 8:27 pm yesterday but the General Aviation airport is "is temporarily closed as the Air Force works to move the plane."
Yeah, nothing strange about that.
And all this is happening in Tampa.
Tampa... I heard there is some kind of event going on there in a few weeks... hummm.
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The pilot has dine everything he can with McDonnell-Douglas equipment. From now on he’ll be piloting something from Steelcase.
This is doable but not too comfortable for the passengers!
What plane?
It left Peter O. Knight Airport Friday night...
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I was at Joint Base Lewis-McChord yesterday for their air show. They did a demonstration of what the C-17 could do. A 3850-foot runway was nothing for this plane. Granted...the plane yesterday at McChord was likely only carrying its own crew and nothing else. Still, it has excelent short-field take-off and landing capabilities.
I do, however, doubt the pilot will ever fly for the Air Force again.
If you’re brewing a conspiracy theory about this, let me respectfully say that I think you’re reaching a bit far.
When I was in flight school in Kingsville TX a Continental crew landed a loaded airliner at Cabaniss Field in Corpus Christi. They had to fly it out empty.
I certainly hope that's not true.
We first of all we don't know which seat was at the controls. Plus the pilot in command usually doesn't do the navigating.
Beyond all that, the skill and ability to perform a very short field landing flawlessly in a flying building is the most difficult flying skill of all.
One source has General Mattis of the US Central Command on board when it landed.
Could’ve been in the right/left seat
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/military/read.main/145598/#menu27
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