Originally Posted by
krismiler
One other thing with the Northwest error was that they were instructed to expect vectors for runway 25L (at Brussels) which was the same as the expected runway in use at Frankfurt. They initially failed to capture the ILS (having set the frequency for 25L at FRA) and requested confirmation from (Brussels) ATC of the ILS frequency. What was very odd from the ATC perspective was that Northwest did not operate into Brussels. One can only suppose that ATC thought it was a planned company diversion.