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Pilots Who Landed at Wrong Airport Suspended From Flying
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| 6-22-04
Posted on 06/21/2004 9:36:41 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
Edited on 06/21/2004 9:48:31 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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To: Indy Pendance
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posted on
06/21/2004 9:38:22 PM PDT
by
CindyDawg
To: Indy Pendance
"If it's Saturday, this must be Rapid City."
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posted on
06/21/2004 9:39:16 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(It MUST be true. I saw it on the Internet.)
To: CindyDawg
Probably. I was searching for the original thread, couldn't find it. If you come across it, could you post it?
To: Indy Pendance
Totally expected. Good chance they'll never fly again.
To: Indy Pendance
Its an easy enough mistake. Pilot error.
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posted on
06/21/2004 9:40:46 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Indy Pendance
Unusual to say the least.
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posted on
06/21/2004 9:41:02 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: martin_fierro
Well you know if someone had painted Rapid City, and Air Force in big letters on these two run ways this might not have happened :')
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posted on
06/21/2004 9:41:42 PM PDT
by
CindyDawg
To: CindyDawg
To: Indy Pendance
Murphy strikes again.
Without success I've tried to find details of a Northwest international flight that landed a few hundred miles short in Europe about ten years ago. As I remember the combination of errors started over Ireland between controllers and the pilots. They were supposed to land in Frankfurt, I believe, and instead landed short in Luxemborg.
To: Indy Pendance
Fercryinoutloud.........haven't these twits ever heard of a vector to ILS final????
To: Indy Pendance
Thanks. I'm afraid I would have peeked though:')
To: CindyDawg
To: Indy Pendance
Just who cleared them to land? Usually they are given an intercept to the localizer. Were they talking to approach control? Lots of things don't add up here.
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posted on
06/21/2004 10:06:24 PM PDT
by
teletech
(Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT!)
To: Indy Pendance
Sad when a hunter or fisherman has more ability to tell where he is with a couple hundred dollar GPS than a multi-million dollar jet liner and crew.
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posted on
06/21/2004 10:11:03 PM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: teletech
You can bet that as soon as they got into VFR conditions they quit looking at the localizer and glide slope and simply landed the aircraft visually on the runway in front of them.
Almost did it myself years ago coming into Austin for the first time. I canceled IFR when I got below the cloud deck and was about 3 miles from finals when the ATC was so kind as to inform that I was on the approach to Bergstrom Air Force Base. Please note sarcasm dripped from every word ATC said to me. I deserved it.
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posted on
06/21/2004 10:16:51 PM PDT
by
cpdiii
(Oilfield Trash and proud of it, Roughneck, , Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, and FREEPER)
To: COEXERJ145
Totally expected. Good chance they'll never fly again. Dontcha think that banning them from flying coach is a little bit too harsh? ;-)
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posted on
06/21/2004 10:20:06 PM PDT
by
Polybius
To: RightOnline
Sure glad I don't need to fly the confused skys anymore. Don't miss it.
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posted on
06/21/2004 10:22:55 PM PDT
by
Joe Hadenuf
(I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
To: cpdiii
Wow, and the runways at Bergstrom & the old Mueller were perpendicular to each other, weren't they?
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posted on
06/21/2004 10:28:05 PM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Veni Vidi Velcro)
To: cpdiii
"ATC was so kind as to inform that I was on the approach to Bergstrom Air Force Base"
That was kind of them. I'm sure you weren't the first one, though, nor the last.
I was once "kindly" informed that I was on final to taxiway Charlie. (It _is_ a closed runway.) Tower asked me to "report runway numbers in sight". I did. 8-L
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