Should've gone to Specsavers

[ultimateharold]

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.airlinereporter.com/2013/11/stuck-boeing-747-dreamlifter-lands-at-airport-that-is-too-small/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.airlinereporter.com/2013/11/ ... too-small/</a>

There's a stream of it leaving the small airfield at the bottom of the link, due in 10mins or so.

More dramatic than it needs to be tbh.

 

[The Pink Panther]

This is one for Gelson's Dad

How the fuck can a plane of that size land at the wrong airfield?

As it approached, did the ATC think it was a Cessna doing flying lessons?

 

[jimharri]

Just wondering; was there any wimmin in the cockpit?

*sits back and waits*

 

[Gelsons Dad]

LOL!


Don't know what avionics they have as it's quite an old airframe. Looks like they were cleared on a GPS type approach which initially lines up with the short runway they landed on before a small turn to align with where they should have landed. I can only assume they spotted the runway and went visual to land completely ignoring their navigation indications. The most obvious problem they should have noticed is that they would have been about 2500ft high on the approach.

This used to happen occasionally but these days in passenger ops it is a lot less likely to happen as there is equipment called RAAS (Runway Awareness and Advisory System ) which gives the pilots aural warnings about the runway they are lining up with.

The problem in most incidents these days is usually the pink fleshy bits ignoring the much more reliable electronic bits.

 

[The Pink Panther]

LOL!


Don't know what avionics they have as it's quite an old airframe. Looks like they were cleared on a GPS type approach which initially lines up with the short runway they landed on before a small turn to align with where they should have landed. I can only assume they spotted the runway and went visual to land completely ignoring their navigation indications. The most obvious problem they should have noticed is that they would have been about 2500ft high on the approach.

This used to happen occasionally but these days in passenger ops it is a lot less likely to happen as there is equipment called RAAS (Runway Awareness and Advisory System ) which gives the pilots aural warnings about the runway they are lining up with.

The problem in most incidents these days is usually the pink fleshy bits ignoring the much more reliable electronic bits.

but they would have sought clearance to land, so were they just lucky the runway was clear?

 

[Gelsons Dad]

LOL!


Don't know what avionics they have as it's quite an old airframe. Looks like they were cleared on a GPS type approach which initially lines up with the short runway they landed on before a small turn to align with where they should have landed. I can only assume they spotted the runway and went visual to land completely ignoring their navigation indications. The most obvious problem they should have noticed is that they would have been about 2500ft high on the approach.

This used to happen occasionally but these days in passenger ops it is a lot less likely to happen as there is equipment called RAAS (Runway Awareness and Advisory System ) which gives the pilots aural warnings about the runway they are lining up with.

The problem in most incidents these days is usually the pink fleshy bits ignoring the much more reliable electronic bits.

but they would have sought clearance to land, so were they just lucky the runway was clear?

They were cleared to land by the ATC unit they were talking to. Unfortunately that was at a different airfield. The place they landed was closed. As was the other airfield in-between where they were and were they should have been!

 

[ultimateharold]

Well a crew (not sure if it was the ones who landed) took off and did the 8 minute trip to the AFB.