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An American Airlines crew almost landed at the wrong airport in Florida
We don’t know what the captain of an American Airlines flight uttered after mistaking Page Field for Southwest Florida International, and almost landing an Airbus A320 at the general aviation airport in Fort Myers on Thursday. But the language probably was stronger than “Oops.” Thankfully, air traffic controllers directed the aircraft to the right airport where the FlightAware tracking software indicates it landed about 25 minutes late. According to a statement from the Federal Aviation… (www.msn.com) Ещё...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I recall a landing at McDill in Tampa, forget the Airline.
All the Monday morning quarterbacks and desktop pilots on here crack me up!
The "Beefy" A 320, Really, ...
Lowell Ferguson WA 44, landed Buffalo WY instead of Sheridan. For years I cherished a tee shirt with a plane sunk into the asphalt with a guy waving out the pilot window and the text, "It landed in Buffalo Wyoming". After a while, Lowell agreed to be the Grand Marshal at the annual Buffalo summer cowboy festival. Not that I would ever do that, but Red Bluff comes up just before Redding and sometimes it's kind of smokey.
On what I remember was a Piedmont flight into Tampa, an airport I had been to many times, on final approach as I looked out the window I told my wife "this is not right" . About three seconds later the power went to full and gear was raised as MacDill AFB passed by below. Captain announced on the PA that "we had to go around", no explanation given.
This seems a common thing at American Airlines.