707 Crash in Iran

[essayer]

V41LEY said:

Who configures two runways like that so close together and in the same orientation.

Derry and Ballykelly ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/485796...

[surveyor]

essayer said:

V41LEY said:

Who configures two runways like that so close together and in the same orientation.

Derry and Ballykelly ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/485796...

And here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi58Ds3Krgw

C17 escapes O Knight when it should have landed at MacDill Air Force base

[AlexIT]

aeropilot said:

surveyor said:

Trevatanus said:

Oops.

Awkward

Similar situation to the Pan-Am 707 mixing up the wrong gasholders as navigation reference and landing (just) at RAF Northolt instead of on R23 at Heathrow......

Anyone remembers the Dreamlifter that was due at McConnell AFB a few year ago?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P6LV-DKMrc

[PAUL500]

I recall an unusual flight a few years ago into Rhoose airport, instead of the usual over Barry and drop down heading west into the airport, we hugged the South Wales coast, went past it, banked over Bridgend and headed back from where we had come, I could have sworn we were lining up to land at St Athan instead! we went right over the top of it very low.

Both fields are only a couple of miles apart, I have been told mistakes have been made for each by pilots.

[hutchst]

Other mishaps are available....

Air Malta landing on the taxiway at Gatwick

Northwest from Detroit mistook Brussels for Frankfurt

[Dr Jekyll]

A member of my club approached Farnborough thinking it was Blackbushe, then a year or two later a USAF B52 crew made the opposite mistake. The trouble is that runways are preferably aligned with prevailing winds so airfields close together will tend to have similarly oriented runways.

[Eric Mc]

I think that B-52 did it three times during airshow week before finally finding Farnborough.

[Trevatanus]

Dr Jekyll said:

A member of my club approached Farnborough thinking it was Blackbushe, then a year or two later a USAF B52 crew made the opposite mistake. The trouble is that runways are preferably aligned with prevailing winds so airfields close together will tend to have similarly oriented runways.

I worked at FIA last year and watched a few arrivals at the end of the day, one of which (possibly one the Red Bull exhibits look like he did a missed approach at Blackbushe before eventually arriving at Farnborough