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Southwest flight lands at wrong Missouri airport
Associated Press ^ | Jan 13, 2014 11:35 AM (ET) | JIM SALTER

Posted on 01/13/2014 9:00:53 AM PST by DJ MacWoW

Federal officials are investigating why a Southwest Airlines flight that was supposed to land at Branson Airport in southwest Missouri instead landed at another airport about 7 miles away that only had about half as much runway.

Southwest Airlines Flight 4013, carrying 124 passengers and five crew members, was scheduled to go from Chicago's Midway International Airport to Branson Airport, airline spokesman Brad Hawkins said Sunday in a statement. But the Boeing 737-700 landed at Taney County Airport, which also is known as M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: airport; branson; piliterror; piloterror
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1 posted on 01/13/2014 9:00:54 AM PST by DJ MacWoW
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To: DJ MacWoW

I was on I-405 driving by Renton Washington one day and wondered why a large commercial jetliner was lining up to land at Renton field. Suddenly it took a hard left and lined up for Boeing Field. ;-)

I think this sort of thing happens a lot.


2 posted on 01/13/2014 9:05:16 AM PST by cuban leaf
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To: DJ MacWoW

Example of why cockpit resource management and crew cooperation is absolutely essential. In short....No excuse sir! That will cost the Capt at least a months pay and the 1st officer too. Also they will probably be put on a year of mandatory quarterly performance checks both in flight and in the simulator. It is an understatement to say that the company management was displeased.


3 posted on 01/13/2014 9:05:49 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: DJ MacWoW

I would love to have seen the pilots face when he figured out what he did.

It’s okay though, Fedex will still hire him now...


4 posted on 01/13/2014 9:05:56 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: cuban leaf

Hey, they all look alike from 30,000 feet.


5 posted on 01/13/2014 9:06:39 AM PST by Tupelo (I am feeling more like Philip Nolan every day)
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To: DJ MacWoW

The pilot was just testing his emergency landing skills —

He passed.


6 posted on 01/13/2014 9:06:57 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: DJ MacWoW

I know we have a few throttle jockeys here so when the pilot checked in to land and the tower was not expecting them, why now just re-direct the flight to the proper airport?


7 posted on 01/13/2014 9:09:40 AM PST by edcoil (System now set up not to allow some to win but for no one to lose!)
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To: Don Corleone
Wall Street is NOT amused.

Southwest Airlines (LUV) is down 18 cents per share today, but is up 44% since October 1.

8 posted on 01/13/2014 9:12:21 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: edcoil

The article says the pilot was talking to Branson and they cleared him to land, so he did. lol


9 posted on 01/13/2014 9:12:40 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: DJ MacWoW
Is this a case of: "I don't care what the GPS says, I can see the airport right there."

10 posted on 01/13/2014 9:12:49 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: edcoil

He may have been talking to the right tower, but looking at the wrong runway.

They are only 7 miles apart.


11 posted on 01/13/2014 9:14:04 AM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: BitWielder1

LOL!!!


12 posted on 01/13/2014 9:14:30 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: DJ MacWoW
Southwest flies to and from Chicago, Houston and Dallas out of the Branson Airport, Bourk said. But that will end in June. Southwest announced last month it was dropping service in Branson, Key West, Fla., and Jackson, Miss. The airline said it can't make money serving the smaller markets.

That's an interesting comment. I thought LUV made money from serving the smaller markets. I guess there are exceptions to that rule.

13 posted on 01/13/2014 9:15:03 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: edcoil

Exactly.....

Didn’t he get handed off from Center to the appropriate tower frequency and didn’t anyone clear him to land on runway xyz? Were both pilots AND ATC asleep?


14 posted on 01/13/2014 9:15:14 AM PST by bergmeid (Resist we much!)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Well, as Rick Perry would say:
Oops!


15 posted on 01/13/2014 9:15:58 AM PST by rhinohunter (Freepers aren't booing -- they're shouting "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
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To: DJ MacWoW
Southwest brought in another plane and passengers flying on to Love Fiend in Dallas departed around 10 p.m., Bourke said.
16 posted on 01/13/2014 9:16:08 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: BitWielder1

my thought too…like the folks who end up in the drink because the GPS voice told them to turn


17 posted on 01/13/2014 9:18:00 AM PST by Nifster
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To: Zhang Fei

I saw that too. LOL


18 posted on 01/13/2014 9:18:19 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Zhang Fei

Apparently the author and the pilot are related.


19 posted on 01/13/2014 9:19:01 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: BitWielder1
Is this a case of: "I don't care what the GPS says, I can see the airport right there."

Funny GSP story. Wife and I were driving to Natural Bridge, VA. We had never been there and didn't have a map, so we followed the GPS navigator. We took every turn, Navigator was happy; but it was clear we were leaving the beaten path. Navigator says something like "Turn into the parking lot on your right." There was the nicest hayfield with an older gentleman mowing hay you'd ever seen. Right out on Norman Rockwell. Turns out we were about 15 miles south and east on Natural Bridge. GPS map was just wrong..

20 posted on 01/13/2014 9:25:04 AM PST by IamConservative (The soul of my lifes journey is Liberty!)
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