ATC at Sharjah, Dubai and Bahrain in those days was all operated by the same company (IAL) - rumour in Bahrain was that the Manager at Sharjah had a large cardboard cut out of the distinctive Dubai Terminal and Tower that he rolled out in front of his own terminal whenever someone landed there by mistake so that he could increase the landing fees!
An Eastern Airways DC3 pilot once told me he'd landed at Wymeswold instead of EMA on one occasion. Back in the 1980's a (Balkan?) TU134 tried it too, but was alerted to his mistake by ATC in time to prevent it happening.
Back in the Gulf again, a former colleague told me that a Korean 747 on a visual approach to Rwy 30 at night had lined up in error on the lights of the oil terminal jetty at Sitra. Despite being told several times by an increasingly concerned ATCO to 'Go Around', he kept asserting, 'negative, we have runway in sight', until finally the outline of an oil tanker became apparent and it did eventually go around, roaring very low over the Gulf Hotel, where the Ruler of Bahrain was holding a reception!
RC