Jumbo jet 'stuck' after landing at wrong airport

[normalbloke]

Oh cringeworthy!


https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2F...

[Mojocvh]

[Otispunkmeyer]

normalbloke said:

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).

Well I am not surprised. Texas is flat and everything is made from gray concrete. I wouldn't know where I was from the air either.

Though they do have GPS right?

[KTF]

Live coverage of it taking off here:

http://www.kirotv.com/videos/news/kiro-live-event-...

Its like the media are really expecting it to not make it or something

[V8 Fettler]

Mojocvh said:

Not often you see an aircraft and a couple of ships of such monumental ugliness in the same photo.

[Willy Nilly]

greygoose said:

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?

They are piloted by highly skilled operators, the likes mere mortals like you and I should look up to and don't you forget it.

[davepoth]

I see moving control surfaces. This is going to be...like most 747 take offs.

[Jimbeaux]

V8 Fettler said:

Mojocvh said:

Not often you see an aircraft and a couple of ships of such monumental ugliness in the same photo.

It is a bloated plane.....looks like that hideous Airbus Beluga-type thingy.

[odyssey2200]

that was almost boring.

[williredale]

That looked easy!

[KTF]

Given that it was empty, with larger than normal wings and the engines at full tilt, only a mechanical failure was going to stop it getting off the ground.

[Puggit]

anonymous said:

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Mustn't laugh!

[williamp]

It happened in wartime too

http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/day-Nazi-pilots-tried-...

[Tango13]

406highlander said:

JATO (jet-assisted take-off) units? Not sure how those attach structurally to the Hercules

They attach at the points shown

[Du1point8]

bet it won't be this close to the limit.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSVC2eWO_nw

[V8 Disco]

Breadvan72 said:

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.

Had forgotten about that... was stood out on the drive watching as I live a mile off the end of the main runway at Fboro - makes you wonder about their ability to accurately deliver ordnance!

[Piersman2]

The Sultan of Brunei faced a similar issue when he flew to Aberdeen to collect an honorary degree. His plane was too large for the little runway.

So they flew to London first, emptied everything leaving just enough fuel to fly to Aberdeen and back.

It was a quick take off from Aberdeen when they blasted back off to London with just enough fuel to get back to London again.

[Active75]

Breadvan72 said:

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

I remember flying into Eindhoven from London City Airport on a small turbo prop,the pilot pulled back the curtain and asked us to look out for the single runway, he couldn't see it!

[Beati Dogu]

A few years ago a Jumbo Jet made an emergency landing at Exeter Airport.

The runway was too short for it to take off again once they'd fixed it. They had to strip it out (seats, fixtures etc) and take off with minimal fuel. They did get it off OK though.

[anonymous-user]

Active75 said:

Breadvan72 said:

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

I remember flying into Eindhoven from London City Airport on a small turbo prop,the pilot pulled back the curtain and asked us to look out for the single runway, he couldn't see it!

Runways deliberately hide themselves sometimes. Try finding Fenland on a grey day - one green field amongst hundreds. My personal invisible airfield is Stapleford, which is daft as it is next to the intersection of two ginormahuge motorways. I am convinced that, like Brigadoon, it can only be seen once every hundred years.