I wonder what the tower said when they cleared the flight to land but it never appeared...:^)
The correct airport had a tower, the one they landed at did not. It could have scared the **** out of any local pilots having a 737 appear on what was probably a straight in approach!
Probably something similar to what I said when it happened to me, when I worked in a tower in Vietnam.
My mother’s uncle recited this story. During WW2, he was on a bomber flying from somewhere in Texas to Newark NJ. There was light fog. The pilot asked the tower if they were clear to land at Newark. The tower said yes but we don’t hear you. (no radar then). The pilot said they would see the runway lights ahead. So, the tower told them, OK, it is clear to land, there are no other aircraft but we still don’t hear you.
As they were decending, my wife’s uncle started screaming to the pilot: PUll Up PULL up, it is the George Washington Bridge (maybe Cristi’s father had the lanes open?). They barely missed putting the plane into the bridge which would have been near the time a B25 crashed into the Empire State Building. So went his brush with fame.