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Colgan (Continental Connection) flight lands at wrong airport!

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mhawke:
Happened on Sept. 7th.  I hadn't heard about this one before.  As you can tell from the article, Colgan is not very popular in Buffalo after the crash here.

http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/134917/37/Colgan-Air-Plane-Lands-At-Wrong-Airport

derekjackson:
http://www.avherald.com/h?article=442aa889&opt=0

The two airports do look alike but of course that's no excuse - it's similar to landing on the wrong runway, inexcusable and potentially dangerous.

notaperfectpilot:
hmmmm....seems like that landing at the wrong airport would be sorta hard to do...well they did it!

joeyb747:
This reminds me of an event that happen in Michigan in December of 2000. A BAX Global DC-8 accidental landed at East Tawas (6D9) instead of Oscoda (KOSC). East Tawas has a 4800 ft long, 100 ft wide, runway. The wingspan of the DC-8 is 142 feet. Oscoda has a runway that measures 11,800 by 200 ft. The airports are eight miles apart and have a similar orientation.  

http://runwayfinder.com/?loc=6D9

http://archives.californiaaviation.org/airport/msg12024.html

sykocus:
It's not the firs time it's happened and won't be the last. Probably my favorite example is when a a jet landed at Wiley Post instead of Will Rogers in OKC. The airports do have a similar configuration, but Wily Post is much smaller and  10 miles away. If that wasn't enough the 6 lane I-40 freeway is runs though OKC almost due east to west and one airport is north of it the other is south.

http://g.co/maps/8ah2x

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