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Old 28th Aug 2009, 01:44
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dhavillandpilot
 
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As a young 20 something year old on his first trip to Europe (as sub load) I got off loaded from the Lufthansa flight in Bombay at 2AM. I clearly remember driving in a "Morris Oxford' Cab to the hotel. Enroute the taxi driver swerved on the road to get around the nose of a JAL 707. It had landed at the wrong airport.

Apparently the small original airport and the large main airport runways were aligned, and the JAL captain only just made it - with the nose half way across the road.

As we drove past I could see that the aircraft had now become home to a large number of resident Indians - now that is what i call recycling.

Having flown for a long time now every pilot, like landing with the wheels up, it is only a lapse of memory from becoming one the statistic's of "wrong airport landing" - I can see the smiles already on the faces of some older pilots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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