Olasek -
flarepilot - a lot of poppycock.
How many hours of IFR do you have in your logbook because your posts are full of babble that clearly shows some skin-deep knowledge (perhaps from this forum) and nothing more.
ATC controllers are not in fault in this case or in any other similar case when pilot managed to screw up and landed at the wrong airport, no ATC procedures were violated. There was probably clear night, pilot declared runway in sight and he got his clearance, if KIAB was a busy place - the story could have been different with controllers scrambling to provide separation and someone would have noticed something was amiss.
Olasek,
You are a GA pilot who flies a 172. Yet you continue to harangue and argue about subjects that you have no direct experience with.
Your continuous squealing over an inconsequential 170 foot rounding error in the Asiana 777 thread - yet you've never flown the approach, never flown a turbine powered aircraft and the closest you've come to SFO is living in Oakland. Your assertion in this thread that no Boeing aircraft has an automated go around capability ...... The list continues.
The fact that I can remember your screen name is not a positive sign. Since it seems to be constantly connected to you arguing about things that you have little experience with. At the moment you're stridently arguing with a Captain at a major US airline; He's probably familiar with a visual approach from an Instrument procedure. Yes, we can all get it wrong, but in this case he's correct
I absolutely welcome any contribution from any level of pilot. However, perhaps some moderation of your "rigorous" (to quote you) debate would be in order.