Southwest flight lands at wrong Mo. airport

[unhappycamper]

http://gazette.com/southwest-flight-lands-at-wrong-mo.-airport/article/feed/78143

Southwest flight lands at wrong Mo. airport
Updated: January 13, 2014 at 2:17 am • Published: January 13, 2014

BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — A Southwest Airlines flight that was scheduled to arrive Sunday night at Branson Airport in southwest Missouri instead landed at an airport about 7 miles northeast — with a runway about half the size of the intended destination.

Southwest Airlines Flight 4013, carrying 124 passengers and five crew members, was scheduled to go from Chicago's Midway International Airport to Branson Airport, airline spokesman Brad Hawkins said Sunday in a statement. But the Boeing 737-700 landed at Taney County Airport, which is also known as M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport.

Hawkins did not have information on why the plane went to the wrong airport. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Tony Molinaro says the agency is investigating the incident.

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It's the second time in less than two months that a large jet has landed at the wrong airport. In November, a Boeing 747 that was supposed to deliver parts to McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kan., landed 9 miles north at Col. James Jabara Airport. That plane was flown by a two-person crew and had no passengers.

[BlueStreak]

1. This kind of mistake won't happen once commercial jets are all converted to drones

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. LOL!

You cracked me up.....

[BlueStreak]

3. You think I am kidding?

Watch this space.

I bet by 2022, there will be at least a few commercial jetliners in the air that are 100% controlled by machine. They will probably still require one trained pilot on board for another decade after that. But even that will cut their staffing in half.

Service in the coach cabin will be provided by a rusty, surly old robot retired from that old Robot Wars show. Service in first class will be a newer model programmed to flirt harmlessly with the more affluent flyers.

[Fuddnik]

5. My Roomba is looking for a job.

[Blue Owl]

4. Branson, eh?

Where is this airport?

[westerebus]

6. Piolt reported to have uttered: imaps are for shit...