Unbelieveable. I was stationed at MacDill a few years back. I wouldn't have believed this with my own eyes. Equipment or none, these guys were in VMC and with enough sets of eyes in the cockpit looking out. Unless there was an inflight emergency preventing them from making the last 4-6 miles of flight the PNF should have asked about the approach into downtown Tampa as opposed to MacDill on the peninsula.

Here's another one:

 

Commuter Flight Lands at Wrong Airport

Aug 09, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Saab 340 operated by Silver Airways on a scheduled flight to North Central West Virginia Airport (KCKB) on Tuesday night mistakenly landed at a much smaller airport in Fairmont, West Virginia (4G7), less than five miles away.

 

The landing by the United Express-coded turboprop happened during Silver Airway's first week of service to KCKB. Fairmont Municipal Airport’s runway is 3,194 feet versus 7,000 feet at the intended destination.

The 11 passengers on board were eventually driven to KCKB. The airline reportedly plans to offload fuel and remove seats to allow the Saab turboprop to depart the smaller airport, which besides having a short runway also is subject to weight restrictions.

The airline reportedly plans to offload fuel and remove seats to allow the Saab turboprop to depart the smaller airport, which besides having a short runway also is subject to weight restrictions.

Must be so much fun for the pilots. I mean, it surely is embarrassing enough to land at the wrong spot. But if they have to modify the thing to make it our of there. Well..

 

Same question as before though. What lead to the mishap? The mental side is the interesting one for me and, even with a lot of those things happening plus reports on it, I haven't found a clear answer yet. Not to mention that there may not be a single one.

 

Thanks for posting.

Must be so much fun for the pilots. I mean, it surely is embarrassing enough to land at the wrong spot. But if they have to modify the thing to make it our of there. Well..

 

Same question as before though. What lead to the mishap? The mental side is the interesting one for me and, even with a lot of those things happening plus reports on it, I haven't found a clear answer yet. Not to mention that there may not be a single one.

 

Thanks for posting.

 

Checkout their pay rates. That's why it happened.

 

http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/regional/silver_airways.html

I think you are pointing at some influence indeed. I 'like' the way they fix the FOs after year 8.

I think you are pointing at some influence indeed. I 'like' the way they fix the FOs after year 8.

 

Well FO's upgrade after 6 months. That is why there is very little experience here.

North Central West Virginia Airport

 

Well, that one's a little hard to visualize!

 

scott s.

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U.S. military pilots are some of the best in the world. Very hard to believe they would make this kind of mistake, especially in daylight. Though this sort of thing happens from time to time, at this point I'm thinking that there is something we don't know that caused them to land there instead of MacDill.

U.S. military pilots are some of the best in the world. Very hard to believe they would make this kind of mistake, especially in daylight. Though this sort of thing happens from time to time, at this point I'm thinking that there is something we don't know that caused them to land there instead of MacDill.

 

Even the best pilots in the world are human, and thus capable of making mistakes.