Originally Posted by
b1lanc
I get that point and there's probably as many incidents of landing at the wrong airfield. But which one of those crews actually tried to set their aircraft down on top of other aircraft? The alarm bells in the cockpit (and maybe an understaffed tower with a gap in radar coverage) went off far too late.
It's harder to find information on near misses than to see the irrefutable proof rolling out on the taxiway. That said, there have been two
Archie awards given in the last four years to Boston controllers sending around aircraft on short final to Taxiway B, in both times, much to the distress of the JetBlue passengers and crew on said taxiway.
And by the way, the human brain wrote the equation. You can't write it out, just shift the brains that enter into it and the conditions they do so.