Ajaaron From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2000, 113 posts, RR: 0 Posted (6 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 5631 times:
A320 crew landed at wrong airport when they believed the ILS signals were innacurate once they became visual with an airport 5 miles before actual destination. They were both so convinced, that both of them rejected the ILS signals, cancelled all the GPWS warnings, and, though not mentioned in the report also must have mentally rejected their position and intended track on the Navigation display.
FlyingColours From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 2315 posts, RR: 11 Reply 4, posted (6 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 5596 times:
Quoting Ajaaron (Thread starter): Whats most surprising is that the commander had over 14,000 hours flying time.
IMO the most shocking thing is the airline did not provide sufficent charts for the area, "The commander tried in vain for 3 days prior to the flight to obtain aerodrome charts for ballikelly." yet after getting the charts 1 day after the incident he said "he would have then known of the proximity/existance of the other airport and not landed there".
Sounds like an airline screw up there, all the aircraft I've worked on had chart library's you would kill your cat for, we had charts for the other side of the world on our 737s - hardly a diversion.
I'm just making an observation though, not passing some blame or anything. What airline was it, I see an EI- registration but I doubt it was Aer Lingus - Translift perhaps?
Phil
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2H4 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8950 posts, RR: 62 Reply 5, posted (6 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 5591 times:
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Quoting Airfoilsguy (Reply 1): Whoa, wait a minute, there are train tracks crossing the runway!?! No wounder they landed at the wrong airport, they were too busy looking for trains!
Reminds me of the time I was flying cross-country in a flight of three with some buddies. One of them spotted a "runway".....I believe the exchange went something like this:
Buddy 1: Dude....check out that runway off to the left.
Buddy 2: What runway? I don't see any runway.
Buddy 1: Yeah, that weird one at our 10 'o clock. They put grandstands in on the sides to watch planes land. What a bunch of idiots. Can you imagine what would happen if a plane veered off the runway?
Buddy 2: Uh...that's a dragstrip. For cars.
Buddy 1: < Kept silent for the remainder of the flight >
KELPkid From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 5962 posts, RR: 4 Reply 7, posted (6 years 4 months 4 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 5491 times:
This happened to a NW A319 crew not too long ago too...
The field of intended landing was RAP, however they inded up landing at RCA...big oops. I will surmise that the base commander at Ellsworth Air Force Base had a few choice words with the flight crew
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Noelg From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (6 years 4 months 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 5155 times:
This was reported on here when it happened and was widely reported in the media - the aircraft was operating a flight for Ryanair leading to the normal slagging off of said airline in the Civ-Av forum!
BigJimFX From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 321 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (6 years 4 months 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 4610 times:
I'm just wondering why ATC waited untill AFTER the plane landed to tell them they landed at the wrong airport.
SlamClick From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 10062 posts, RR: 71 Reply 15, posted (6 years 4 months 3 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 4515 times:
Good piece of advice to aircrew upon sighting the airport:
Don't abandon the approach!
Years ago a corportate/135 pilot told me about taking the jet away from the captain at LAX with a huge celebrity passenger in the back. The captain was on the ILS to the south side, broke out at about 1600 feet, saw the lights of "The Forum" parking lot and dove for them.
Don't abandon the approach.
Happiness is not seeing another trite Ste. Maarten photo all week long.
Access-Air From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 1939 posts, RR: 15 Reply 16, posted (6 years 4 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 4187 times:
Quoting KELPkid (Reply 7): The field of intended landing was RAP, however they inded up landing at RCA...big oops. I will surmise that the base commander at Ellsworth Air Force Base had a few choice words with the flight crew eek
I thought they were intending to land at Minot not Rapid City.Are you speaking about the Northwest Airbus?????....My former co-worker's husband was stationed at Ellsworth AF base and the commercial airport nearby was Minot.....NOT Rapid City....
PhilSquares From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 17, posted (6 years 4 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 4183 times:
Quoting Access-Air (Reply 16): I thought they were intending to land at Minot not Rapid City.Are you speaking about the Northwest Airbus?????....My former co-worker's husband was stationed at Ellsworth AF base and the commercial airport nearby was Minot.....NOT Rapid City....
Just an observation...
Perhaps this map will help! Minot AFB is near Minot ND, not Rapid City, SD. Google is an amazing tool, if you use it!
KELPkid From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 5962 posts, RR: 4 Reply 18, posted (6 years 4 months 3 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 4102 times:
Quoting Access-Air (Reply 16): I thought they were intending to land at Minot not Rapid City.Are you speaking about the Northwest Airbus?????....My former co-worker's husband was stationed at Ellsworth AF base and the commercial airport nearby was Minot.....NOT Rapid City....
Having have been both places (Minot and Rapid City), I can assure you that 1) Ellsworth AFB is in Rapid City and 2) Minot, North Dakota is no where near Rapid City, South Dakota. This is the problem with third-handed information...
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Airfoilsguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 20, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 3731 times:
Quoting Cobra27 (Reply 19): Why did you call the topic Airbus lands at the wrong runway? Like the airbus landed by themselve
The plane work functioned perfectly. It was the pilots that malfunctioned. That is why that after the plane landed they replaced the malfunctioning part of the plane (the pilots) and the plane flew to the correct airport.
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