Smith, Patrick. "Sorry, Wrong Airport." The Daily Beast. Ostrower, Jon. "Boeing 747 Mistakenly Lands at Tiny Kansas Airport." The Wall Street Journal. Boeing. "2.0 Airplane Description." 747 Airplane Characteristics for Airport Planning: 747-400/-400ER Document D6-58326-1. On Jan. 12, 2014, a Southwest Airlines flight took off from Chicago's Midway International Airport and landed at Taney County's M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport in Missouri. In April 2009, a TAAG Angola Airlines flight bound for Zambia's Lusaka International Airport landed instead at an airfield used by the Zambian air force. But you don't have to work for one of the least-safe airlines in the world to commit such a gaffe. In the last decade, at least half a dozen such incidents have occurred in the United States alone, thanks to weather, flight crew errors or blunders by air traffic control. On the other hand, pilots using a visual approach -- in which the crew recognizes the airport by sight and plots the most practical course and pattern to the runway -- have more rope with which to hang themselves. The Boeing 747 Dreamlifter hangs out at Paine Field Airport in Washington. James Jabara Airport in Wichita, Kan.
City of Wichita. "Dreamlifter set to takeoff at 1 pm from Jabara. Motorists need to avoid area due to jet blast concerns. K-96 shut down at Rock and Greenwich." Twitter. It has a maximum takeoff weight of 803,000 pounds (364,000 kilograms). Dozens of airstrips lie scattered across the metropolitan area of Wichita -- the self-proclaimed "Air Capital of the World," thanks to its strong aircraft industry presence. Passengers and crew were all fine, even with the short runway, thanks to some heavy braking., instead put in at Peter O. Knight Airport, a small suburban field. After that, it's up to the flight crew to sight the strip and land via a visual approach. To understand why, we need to look at how pilots land and at how airports are laid out. I sometimes think that we are surprised by stories like these only because we vastly overestimate the people and machines with which we entrust out lives. Also in 2006, a Comair regional jet in Lexington, Ky., crashed and burst into flames after running out of room on the wrong runway. Now imagine that giant landing unexpectedly on a modest runway. Mutzabaugh, Ben. "Boeing Jumbo Jet Takes Off After Landing at Wrong Airport." USA Today.
Associated Press. "Obama Plane Lands at Wrong Airport." Washington Post. Associated Press. "Plane Lands Right on Schedule - at Wrong Airport." Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Hradecky, Simon. "Incident: Silver SF34 at Fairmont on Aug 7th 2012, Landed on Wrong Airport." The Aviation Herald. Consequently, when the Atlas Air pilot got his position wrong, he got it even more wrong than he realized: He thought the plane had landed at Beech Field, not Col. No one was injured, and no damage to the plane was reported. Alfano, Sean. "Flight Data: Plane on Wrong Runway." CBS News. In 1995, a Frankfurt-bound DC-10 landed in Brussels after air traffic controllers received and conveyed the wrong flight information. Under an instrument landing system (ILS), the pilot or aircraft autoflight system tracks a set of crosshair signals all the way to the runway and therefore has little chance of wandering off the beam, provided that flight plan info is inputted correctly. RNAV relies on inertial guidance and/or external course-plotting systems -- such as navigation satellites (GPS) and older VOR (very high frequency omnidirectional range) and DME (distance measuring equipment) signals -- to reach the field's vicinity. Between these two lie a number of "non-precision" instrument patterns, including the area navigation (RNAV) system that the Dreamlifter used.
Again, the mistake involved two neighboring airfields bearing similar runway configurations and, again, fears were voiced about possible runway damage caused by the beefy craft. With its 211.5-foot (64.4-meter) wingspan, it spreads more than double the width of the runway at Col. Getting the runway wrong doesn't always end so well, however. McMillin, Molly. "Plenty of Airports Around Wichita for Accidental Landings." The Wichita Eagle. Of course, Wichita isn't the only city where mistaken landings happen. The likelihood of mistaken landings varies according to the landing system used by the pilot. Maybe the pilot thought he'd like to be a few months early for the Iowa caucuses. Given the complexities of approaches in packed European airspace, the pilots did not suspect they were being led astray until they had nearly arrived in the Belgian capital. When they do, the consequences can include not only red-faced pilots, but also inconvenienced passengers, endangered planes and damaged airfields. Who Controls the Controllers?
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