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Southwest Airlines flight lands at wrong Mo. airport
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| January 13, 2013
| AP
Posted on 01/13/2014 5:09:11 AM PST by billorites
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To: billorites
I’m very happy that I don’t have to fly anywhere.
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posted on
01/13/2014 5:10:42 AM PST
by
basil
(2ASisters.org)
To: billorites
“Folks, this is your captain speaking. Whoops! Something funny happened just now....”
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posted on
01/13/2014 5:11:52 AM PST
by
Tenacious 1
(Liberals can afford for things to go well, to work, for folks to be happy. They'd be out of work.)
To: billorites
Hawkins did not have information on why the plane went to the wrong airport... Must of been a Visual Approach, and pilots heads looking out the window, with not a glance at nav equipment (GPS).
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posted on
01/13/2014 5:13:06 AM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: C210N
? Time Zone change ?
Mighta thrown off the GPS
/S
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posted on
01/13/2014 5:16:26 AM PST
by
mabarker1
(Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
To: mabarker1
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posted on
01/13/2014 5:21:56 AM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: billorites
I fly Southwest nearly 100 times each year. Leaving tomorrow again.
Been through bad weather, bad passengers, bad flight attendants, airport diversions and one depressurization - masks and all drop down.
I will still fly since I have max status on Southwest - traveling with without status looks miserable.
Southwest will have apology emails in the ether this morning and be lawyered up by nightfall.
I'll bet that the pilot's union will have postings for two experienced pilots, available to work immediately ...
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posted on
01/13/2014 5:23:24 AM PST
by
texas booster
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To: C210N
LOL! every time I hear that I get a mental image of the Coke Bear on an iceberg spinning around in the ocean.
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posted on
01/13/2014 5:34:36 AM PST
by
mabarker1
(Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
To: C210N
My guess, a Visual approach, at night, both airports have the same runway alignment. SW sees the beacon for the smaller airport, reports what he thinks is Branson airport in sight, and is cleared for the approach. Not the first time and will not be the last.
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posted on
01/13/2014 5:45:37 AM PST
by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
To: billorites
Crappy non-union outfit..../sarc
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posted on
01/13/2014 5:55:56 AM PST
by
showme_the_Glory
(ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
To: billorites
Don’t these planes have a basic GPS system?
My phone or the Captain’s could have told him he was in the wrong place.
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posted on
01/13/2014 5:58:26 AM PST
by
Mister Da
(The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
To: C210N
Sounds like a cockpit resource management problem. The pilot not flying didn't backup the other guy.
It's hard to stick to CRM disciplines when you're tired and nobody is looking at you, but that's when you need them most.
I've landed on the wrong runway, but haven't landed at the wrong airport...yet.
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posted on
01/13/2014 6:06:51 AM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
I've landed on the wrong runway... Landed on the taxiway once, lol...
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posted on
01/13/2014 6:08:54 AM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: billorites
What’s the big deal? Just a little further to taxi to the arrival gate...
“...uh, folks...we touched down right on time, however there’ll be some delay in getting to our gate. Depending on the traffic, we should arrive there in about 30 minutes. Pay no attention to the vehicles and stop lights as we taxi in.”
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posted on
01/13/2014 6:10:34 AM PST
by
moovova
To: C210N
Well, at least the pilots didn’t do a “touch and go..”
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posted on
01/13/2014 6:13:19 AM PST
by
ken5050
(This space available cheap...)
To: billorites
I wonder why this article has a date of one year ago.
Oh! no, I don't.
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posted on
01/13/2014 6:31:10 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: C210N
Must of been I wonder why folks use this spelling, instead of "must've been" or "must have been".
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posted on
01/13/2014 6:33:47 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Izzy Dunne
Because no matter how old one is, no matter how much distance one has to what one learned in grammar school, one is still a student of the English language...
I will add this item to my writing repertoire!
[actually, I know better... just that while focusing on the topic and some of the grammar, others sometimes get away!]
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posted on
01/13/2014 6:39:39 AM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: texas booster
I fly Southwest nearly 100 times each year.I'm sorry to hear that. The reference is not to Southwest but that you fly nearly 100 times each year. What a drag that must be.
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posted on
01/13/2014 6:55:58 AM PST
by
OldPossum
("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
To: billorites
Landed at this airport several times and driven by the shorter one quite a bit. Real hard to understand how this could happen given the location and terrain.
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posted on
01/13/2014 6:58:11 AM PST
by
Bayan
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