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bill grasso Donating Member (42 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 03:20 PM
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4. Incompetence in high places..
Edited on Sun Jun-20-04 03:20 PM by bill grasso
we should be used to screw ups like this.. we have Bush..

actually, mistaken landings of this sort are not uncommon, although less likely to occur in the commercial aviation arena..

In the mid -80's, a Delta flight bound for Tampa landed, in broad daylight, at MacDill AFB, which is on the OPPOSITE side of Tampa Bay.

A few years later, as a maintenance observer on a Chicago to Albany, NY flight, I had to point out to the Captain he was lining up with the Schenectady Airport, rather than Albany, which is a few miles further east and on the opposite side of the Mohawk River.

You see what you want to see...
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