Posted on 07/09/2016 6:37:51 AM PDT by r_barton
WASHINGTON – A Delta Air Lines jetliner with 130 passengers on board landed at the wrong airport in South Dakota Thursday evening, said a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the incident. The Delta A320 landed at Ellsworth Air Force Base at 8:42 p.m. Central Time Thursday, when its destination was an airport in Rapid City, board spokesman Peter Knudson said Friday.
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Happened in Portland Or about 35 years ago when a 707 landed at Troutdale, 20 miles east. The runway is short about 3500 feet verses 8500 at PDX. the had to unload the plane, remove most of the fuel. take out the seats etc. had to start the Take off on the run off, to get it out of there.
OOPS!
Wanna Get Away?
LOL LOL
Come on now, “What difference does it make?”
who knows with the lies and lax security in our Government these days. There might have been a reason and a cause he landed at the military airport.
It’s not like the tower all a sudden realized a civilian aircraft just landed unannounced.
-Idle rampant cynical conspiracy post-
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KRAP and Ellsworth have same rwy config. On a visual at dusk, I can see where this would happen. Metropolis, Illinois and Paducah, KY and Branson, MO and a private field nearby have had similar incidents for the same reason..
Not very likely unless something really untoward was happening in the cockpit to cause a distraction such as unnecessary conversation with a non crew member or FA. The usual result is a suspension from schedule for retraining, a hefty fine, say one or two months pay and multiple check rides for about the next year. Not a career enhancement however. Sheite happens.
Mistakes were made.
But, what was the intent of the pilots? /s
Well, I think commercial GPS would be pretty erratic in that area. I find certain areas where my GPS goes crazy.
Here’s the Air Force repositioning its C17 after it mistakenly landed at a small airport in Tampa a few years ago. A general on board stuck up for the pilots. They’d been on a long flight and apparently felt some pressure to get the flight completed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6g91O-jaT4
It wasn’t even dark yet. Looks like they are about 10 miles apart.
I recall hearing from pilot friend that your GA airplane leaves with the wings removed, on a truck.
Troutdale is where we picked up the Deb.
No we don’t, and yes it will be. This isn’t that unusual. Any time you’ve got a civilian airport and military airbase less than 15 air miles apart this thing can happen, and does happen periodically. Do to sharing weather conditions the strips will generally be on the same lines, and when you’re coming in at over 100MPH that’s a short distance. Luckily both places generally know the drill and how to handle it, which maintains a pretty high level of op sec. And our enemies will get shot down, or killed on the field.
Would you suggest the Air Force shoot the plane down? How else would you prevent it from landing?
Guess it’s about how they configured their Flight Management Computer. I’d like to see both plates to see how they could have confused the two.
In Nov 2013 a Boeing 747 Dreamlifter cargo plane (special 747 cargo plane built by Boeing to fly large aircraft assemblies, wings etc, from Boeing factory to Boeing factory) landed at the wrong airport.
Boeing 747 LCF N780BA lands at Jabara Airport instead of McConnell AFB. Operated by Atlas Air. Aircraft takes off from 6100 foot runway without incident. Headed for original destination.
Boeing 747 Dreamlifter Cargo Plane Lands Wrong Airport At Tiny Airport
https://youtu.be/EcIe-0vYleQ
Boeing 747 LCF Dreamlifter takeoff from wrong airport! N780BA Short Runway
https://youtu.be/S1Kc3KAorsg
Should have been a piece of cake for that airplane.
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