"Richard Kaplan" wrote in message ws.com...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Central/0....ap/index.html

I seem to remember an incident of a commercial flight landing at
Amman, Jordan instead of Tel Aviv, Israel, which is a pretty serious
snafu. Am I remembering right? I remember thinking that the crew had
to have been thouroughly unfamiliar with the area, since the Tel Aviv
airport is just a few miles from the Mediterranean coast and Amman is
in a desert landscape 60 or so miles inland. I once heard of a GA
pilot almost mistaking Beirut for Haifa (which would be an even worse
mistake), but at least they're both near the sea.