[DJ MacWoW]

No comment.

[cuban leaf]

I was on I-405 driving by Renton Washington one day and wondered why a large commercial jetliner was lining up to land at Renton field. Suddenly it took a hard left and lined up for Boeing Field. ;-)

I think this sort of thing happens a lot.

[Don Corleone]

Example of why cockpit resource management and crew cooperation is absolutely essential. In short....No excuse sir! That will cost the Capt at least a months pay and the 1st officer too. Also they will probably be put on a year of mandatory quarterly performance checks both in flight and in the simulator. It is an understatement to say that the company management was displeased.

[Abathar]

I would love to have seen the pilots face when he figured out what he did.

It’s okay though, Fedex will still hire him now...

[Uncle Chip]

The pilot was just testing his emergency landing skills —

He passed.

[edcoil]

I know we have a few throttle jockeys here so when the pilot checked in to land and the tower was not expecting them, why now just re-direct the flight to the proper airport?

[BitWielder1]

Is this a case of: "I don't care what the GPS says, I can see the airport right there."

[Zhang Fei]

Southwest flies to and from Chicago, Houston and Dallas out of the Branson Airport, Bourk said. But that will end in June. Southwest announced last month it was dropping service in Branson, Key West, Fla., and Jackson, Miss. The airline said it can't make money serving the smaller markets.

That's an interesting comment. I thought LUV made money from serving the smaller markets. I guess there are exceptions to that rule.

[rhinohunter]

Well, as Rick Perry would say:
Oops!

[Zhang Fei]

Southwest brought in another plane and passengers flying on to Love Fiend in Dallas departed around 10 p.m., Bourke said.

[lowbridge]

“landed at another airport about 7 miles away”

Close enough.

[rawhide]

I read today when the passengers got off the plane, they discovered the plane stopped just 40 feet from going off a cliff.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/grantmartin/2014/01/12/southwest-airlines-plane-lands-at-wrong-airport-almost-careens-off-cliff/

[blueunicorn6]

Well, if the passengers can pick which seat they want to use, I guess the pilot can pick which airport he wants to use.

[Ramius]

Do they even need to punish the pilot? Seems the punishment is built in. He’s going to hear about it every day for the rest of his career. [chuckle]

[Red Badger]

Pilot: WOW, that runway sure is short!

Co-Pilot: Yeah, but look how WIDE it is!...................

[oh8eleven]

[Rebelbase]

Aerial photo of runway showing drop-offs at either end.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/Clark_Taney_Co_Airport_6-1-09_by_KTrimble.jpg

The Airnav site offers this warning about the runway:
NO SAFETY/OVERRUN AREAS AT RY ENDS-LARGE DROP-OFFS. STEEP TERRAIN GRADIENTS ALONG RY PVMT EDGES.

[OrangeHoof]

I hate it when that happens.

[bunkerhill7]

He got vector`d into a Polar Vortex

[bergmeid]

I bet the first clue they had that they were at the wrong airport was when the captain had to stand on the brakes......

[CARDINALRULES]

Wow, took a long time from when it happened last night to be posted here.

BTW it just took off a few minutes ago.