Originally Posted by
ironbutt57
Northwest in Brussels instead of Frankfurt..the list is long...failure to follow SOPs is usually a link in the chain
Northwest DC10 did not land on the wrong runway by themselves but they were cleared and vectored into the wrong airport. The only major mistake the Crew did was that when they broke (low) cloud cover and realized they were not in Frankfurt the Capt elected to land instead of going around. They missed a lot of clues before but a lot of mistakes were done by others around them to put them there. .Both the Capt and F/o were fired after that though..