A Boeing 747 Dreamlifter landed at the wrong airport at around 21:38 local time. It landed at Jabara airport in Kansas but was scheduled to land at McConnell Air Force Base (IAB) in Kansas.
The runway at the airport is not long enough to take off again.
Interesting enough the crew of two was not aware of which airport they landed. For minutes they thought it was Beech Factory airport. In fact they landed north of Beech at Jabara airport.
According @LiveATC the DreamLifter was 25mile from field at 9:12pm -- cleared for the ARNAV GPS approach to 19L at IAB
Jabara airport has a single runway and is located north-east of the city of Wichita.
McConnell Air Force Base is located in the south east of the city, has two parallel runways and is much larger than Jabara airport.
Both Jabara and McConnell have runways that are running more or less north-south.
For a map showing the position of both airports see this link
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/ed...M.kJkZGuBc9xd4
The Boeing 747 Dreamlifter is a modified Boeing 747 Freighter. It is used by Boeing to fly Boeing 787 aircraft parts like wings from various locations worldwide to Seattle. At Seattle the parts are asssembled to a complete aircraft.
The aircraft are flown and operated by Atlas Air. 2 persons on board. aircraft landed safely with no damage.
It appears the aircraft is not able to backtrack the runway. Boeing sents a tug to turn the aircraft around.
Massive Plane Mistakenly Lands At A Tiny Kansas Airport And Is Stuck There
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