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Old 12th Sep 2011, 23:30
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airman1900
 
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"Interesting that southeast Florida has FOUR airports with near-identical runway layouts in close proximity, but so far as I know, has not had any wrong-airport landings."

From the NTSB, an event on June 10, 1973, (sorry for the poor formatting):


NTSB Identification: MIA74IM008
14 CFR Part 121 Scheduled operation of UNITED AIR LINES INC
Aircraft: BOEING 727, registration: N7625U

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FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA
F S M/N PURPOSE
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4-0030 73/6/10 OPA LOCKA,FLA BOEING 727 CR- 0 0 8 SCHED DOM PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE
TIME - 2110 N7625U PX- 0 0 71 UNK/NR, UNK/NR TOTAL
DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 HOURS, UNK/NR IN TYPE,
INSTRUMENT RATED.
CLASSIFIED AS INCIDENT
NAME OF AIRPORT - OPA LOCKA
OPERATOR - UNITED AIR LINES,INC.
DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION
ATLANTA,GA MIAMI,FLA
TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION
MISCELLANEOUS LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN
PROBABLE CAUSE(S)
COPILOT - FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - LANDED AT WRONG AIRPORT
REMARKS- VISUAL APCH TO LND AT MIA INTL LNDD AT OPA LOCKA RADIO SET 119.3 MIA TWR FREQ 118.3 MH.

There are dozens of "wrong" airport landings listed at:


http://www.thirdamendment.com/wrongway.html


Some say, any landing that you can walk away from is good landing
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