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Old 22nd Sep 2011, 12:13
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Nubian
 
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Pattern is full,

I was in San Juan when a 737 inbound for TJSJ saw the lights of TJIG (the smaller GA airport) right under his nose (but ~8 miles closer) and landed there by mistake. Both have lagoons on short final - runways are 9-27 for TJIG and 8-26 or 10-28 for TJSJ - so again, he saw what he expected to see.
I guess you think of: United Airlines UA5850, which was a B757 with 188pax....12-21-1991. Runway at TJIG is 5542ft, and has a lagoon on final 09 and a marina and high-rise hotels in the other end. Located 5NM from San Juan Intl. and have no nav-aids.
After that the plates has warnings about it on the ''plates'' used for TJSJ.
Stripped down, min fuel and flown out later after winds had died down(allways 09, 15+kts during day), but the big problem was turning it around on the narrow rwy, without proper taxi-ways for it..
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