SWA lands at wrong Branson Airport

[tankerhead]

Blame it on AirTran.

I actually heard that Iran, not the Tran, is claiming full responsibility.

 

[tankerhead]

Did Branson's tower close?

 

[OldManPilot]

Was that RSW?

 

[Kharma Police]

This shizz can and has happened to every airline. You glass house punk b!tches better check yourselves and stop disrespecting my stepbruthas.

 

[75 Driver]

Having access to the FOQA data base...

this can and continues to almost happen to quite a few crews across the entire database of participants. Always set the approach or visual for the runway and verify the magenta line takes you to the same place as you see in the window.

 

[Pervis]

Machines break and people make mistakes, regardless of who's logo is on your napkins. No one was hurt, and we can all learn from these mistakes. I still fly with people into airports (frac world) I have never heard of who refuse to enter a centerline and GP into the FMS until I ask them to. Confidence is one thing. Refusal to use all available aids is beyond arrogant.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

Was it a classic?

 

[dalad]

Machines break and people make mistakes, regardless of who's logo is on your napkins. No one was hurt, and we can all learn from these mistakes. I still fly with people into airports (frac world) I have never heard of who refuse to enter a centerline and GP into the FMS until I ask them to. Confidence is one thing. Refusal to use all available aids is beyond arrogant.

Exactly, DAL had 2 incidents in the 1980's, Frankfurt and MacDill. A USAF C-17 recently did the same thing as well as the Gemini 747. One thing is for sure, it is inexcusable. Use your navaids, FMS, GPS.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

I've landed at this airport in past (with intent), if I recall there's a rather substantial Wiley Coyote drop-off down to a highway at one end. I'd bet there's was a couple bites missing out of the flight deck seat cushions.

 

[IslandDriver]

The pictures on The Today Show show a 700.

Can still draw a line on a classic. Just don't get a pretty picture. The HSI is centered though.

Like the above it happens at many airlines......

It can be avoided....I'll learn from these guys and hope I never do it!

 

[WSurf]

Good reason for management to ask for concessions.

 

[glasspilot1]

"Tune and identify all electronic aids to navigation", even on a visual approach. I guess there's still guys out there that think it's macho (or just lazy?) to just aim it at an airport when they hear "Cleared for the visual approach".

 

[jetjock6]

Wait until the General sees this. "How could they have mistaken that for LBB?"

 

[Toecutter]

If they had IAN this would have never happened. Too bad they think it's voodoo.

 

[Scoot 11]

This shizz can and has happened to every airline. You glass house punk b!tches better check yourselves

Well said!
Wonder where the usual internet troll tanker doosh is with his usual drivel?

 

[tankerhead]

Well said!
Wonder where the usual internet troll tanker doosh is with his usual drivel?

If you're referring to me, genius, I already chimed in. Now GFY.

 

[Capn Butthead]

There is no excuse for this happening especially in a 700...there is no approach to 17 at BKG except a gps...some people just don't put it in...I feel bad for the crew...we all make mistakes. As for getting the plane out it will be no sweat...Alaska used to fly their 200 combis and 737-400 out of Dutch Harbor. It's 3900 feet long. The 737 is quite the performer. It's amazing that they stopped it on a 3800 ft strip expecting 7000....

 

[Little G-Force]

The news was reporting that the pilots were "repeatedly" apologizing for the inconvenience.

Hope they didn't murmur like a broken record that. We'll get you to Branson soon as safely as possible . Then the thanks for flying with us enjoy your stay in the Branson area or wherever we decide to take you

 

[jonjuan]

If you're referring to me, genius, I already chimed in. Now GFY.

Think he was referring to tankerclown.

 

[Fly-By-Cable]

This shizz can and has happened to every airline. You glass house punk b!tches better check yourselves and stop disrespecting my stepbruthas.

Less likely to happen at AirTran where we're required to overfly final approach fix on every visual approach at night. Pretty hard to overfly a marker at one airport and then land at another.

Also they were operating in rising terrain. Airport they landed at is in the valley - 350 feet lower than airport of intended landing which is on top of the highest hill. Descending 350 feet bellow briefed touchdown zone elevation, should have set off some bells in one's head.

 

[Tweaker]

"The cabin filled with the smell of burning rubber" said a passenger.

I'd bet that smells better than the emptied contents of two sets of bowels in the cawkpit!

What a terrifying and humiliating event.

 

[Scoot 11]

If you're referring to me, genius, I already chimed in. Now GFY.

No azzwipe, I was referring to tanker clown! But thanks for wasting your breath when you could have saved it for your inflatable date!:blush:

 

[BillJBrake]

The usual suspects are pretty quiet in this thread. I figured all the LUV drivers would be on here quick to defend how something so weak can happen to "anyone". It's 8 miles away! Tune and identify...overlay, a little SA gents, please!

 

[densoo]

Descending 350 feet bellow briefed touchdown zone elevation, should have set off some bells in one's head.

Standby for an FAA-mandated ACARS prompt requiring both pilots to certify they've briefed the approach.

 

[Fly-By-Cable]

Standby for an FAA-mandated ACARS prompt requiring both pilots to certify they've briefed the approach.

You press that prompt every time you sign a dispatch release.

 

[Golden Falcon]

Looks like the Corndogs are trying to copy Delta aka Don't Ever Land There Again

 

[Kharma Police]

Less likely to happen at AirTran where we're required to overfly final approach fix on every visual approach at night. Pretty hard to overfly a marker at one airport and then land at another.

Also they were operating in rising terrain. Airport they landed at is in the valley - 350 feet lower than airport of intended landing which is on top of the highest hill. Descending 350 feet bellow briefed touchdown zone elevation, should have set off some bells in one's head.

You missed my point. And BTW, the reason why we have to fly to the marker is because of a mistake by a crew flying into CAK scud running and setting of the terrain alerts with ATC. We have had our fair share of f-ups at AirTran (no flap T/O, go-around in RDU, no packs in MKE). So, again remember we all live in the same glass house.

 

[densoo]

You press that prompt every time you sign a dispatch release.

Which also means I'm certifying fit for duty yet here we are signing the release and then having to separately certify fit for duty.

 

[Muppets]

WTF! I can understand if this was 1965....but with all the resources available today....unacceptable. Passengers deserve better for $69.

 

[freightdogfred]

The usual suspects are pretty quiet in this thread. I figured all the LUV drivers would be on here quick to defend how something so weak can happen to "anyone". It's 8 miles away! Tune and identify...overlay, a little SA gents, please!

I was thinking the same thing. That being said, I agree that it can happen to anyone. After the 5th day of 4 legs a night flying night freight I set up to land at AAf Biggs instead of El Paso. Granted, they are closer to each other with the exact same runway layout, it's still no excuse. If you always set up for an instrument approach, you always land on the right runway. It's what saved me that morning.