NWA plane lands at wrong airport

In article , WalterM140
wrote:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1631/4837686.html


Heard a thing like this a few years ago; they thought they were landing in
Amsterdam, turned out to be Frankfort, as I recall.

They did this about a decade ago with one of the smaller planes,
either a 727 or DC-9. The crew landed at the Wausau, Wisconsin,
airport. Only problem was that the passenger terminal was at
the Central Wisconsin Airport about 10 miles to the south. The
runway was too short to fly the plane out as-is, so they had to
bring in a new crew, strip down everything that could be removed,
drain out almost all the fuel, and then do a max performance take-
off.

-john-

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In article , WalterM140
wrote:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1631/4837686.html


Heard a thing like this a few years ago; they thought they were landing in
Amsterdam, turned out to be Frankfort, as I recall.

They did this about a decade ago with one of the smaller planes,
either a 727 or DC-9. The crew landed at the Wausau, Wisconsin,


This is not an uncommon situation in the airline world. A 737 landed
at Cabaniss field instead of CRP a few years ago... That was a little
like this last incident. The crew popped out of the overcast and there
was a runway lined up in front of them....A check airman did that one
I understand... And not one, but two, EMB-120s landed at Sulphur
instead of Lake Charles just weeks apart. Both were from the same
airline.