Jumbo jet 'stuck' after landing at wrong airport

[Puggit]

Googlemaps for those interested: http://goo.gl/maps/ho7CY

McConnell is down the bottom

[tuffer]

Just empty it and turn it into a holiday villa, sure there are plenty of people in South Wales would love a bit of that.

[robinessex]

Call Bruce Willis. Charlton Heston is dead.

[100SRV]

Puggit said:

Googlemaps for those interested: http://goo.gl/maps/ho7CY

McConnell is down the bottom

I can't see the aircraft you mention on the google earth satellite view :-(

















;-)

[Spyder5]

C17 did something similar in Florida

http://youtu.be/sHMhClzfoi8

and the take off

http://youtu.be/wi58Ds3Krgw

[Jimbeaux]

This thread is illegit without Eric Mc, period (full stop).

[Puggit]

I wonder if they make the same pilots fix their mistakes?

[greygoose]

Don't planes have sat nav to show where they actually are, seemed a long time for them to find out where they had landed?

[555 Paul]

100SRV said:

I can't see the aircraft you mention on the google earth satellite view :-(

















;-)

I was just about to ask if you're being serious then I scrolled down a bit further

[Engineer1]

davepoth said:

Engineer1 said:

Empty it ship the cargo by road hell if it really stuck modify it till it fits down closed roads and ship it by road to somewhere they can fix it and put it back in service.

Are you really an engineer?

Look who wrote the Original Post the man who has a bee in his bonnet about roads being closed and unsusual loads being shipped so my answer was a wind up to him, besides if it is stuck then pulling it apart is better than leaving it stuck there to rot.

[Apache]

Unload it, refuel it, back it up over the piano keys, wait till the temp drops and nail it on the brakes, she'll be right. Scary how common it seems to be

[TonyHetherington]

My parents were on a flight to Tenerife a few months ago, as they were coming down to land my mum said "this isn't the normal approach - we normally go past the island, then turn around". Not far from the ground the pilot goes full power, up in the air.

He was trying to land in Lanzarote!

[anonymous-user]

dazwalsh said:

surely an empty 747 on minimal fuel will get out of there, might have to wait for a decent headwind though.

it takes an absolute donkey to land at the wrong airport though.

Are you a pilot? Mistaking one airfield for another from the air is something that even some very proficient pilots have done.

[69 coupe]

Scheduled to take off around noon, with new crew.

http://www.kwch.com/news/local-news/boeing-dreamli...

[aeropilot]

Certainly not the first time this has happened and probably won't be the last either.

Back in 1960, a Pan Am B707 landed at RAF Northolt by mistake instead of Heathrow.
I think it was either the Pan Am Chief Pilot that flew it out, with min fuel for the short hop over to LHR or a Boeing TP that was flown over to fly it out. There were stories of all the seats being taken out as well, but don't know if that's true or not.

[anonymous-user]

A B52 intending to display at Fanrborough instead flew over Blackbushe a few years ago, and aircraft aiming for Duxford have ended up at Cambridge. I laughed when a very experienced pilot I was flying with misidentified Aston Down as Kemble, but laughed less when I did the same thing about a year later.

[jeff m2]

This is 4241 request permission to taxi to correct airport.

[Vipers]

Spyder5 said:

C17 did something similar in Florida

http://youtu.be/sHMhClzfoi8

and the take off

http://youtu.be/wi58Ds3Krgw

My my, that take off was impressive.

[odyssey2200]

I have a very large elastic band they can borrow.

I'm off to the shed to knock up a portable steam catapult, I think I could hire it out for large amounts of £/$ in cases like this.

[normalbloke]

This made me laugh from PPRUNE....


Reports suggest that when the aircraft had touched down and the crew asked McConnell for taxi instructions, only to be told "well you haven't landed here", they still couldn't work out where they were and believed they had landed at the Beech Factory Airport (KBEC, about midway between Jabara and McConnell).