Spangdahlem this Afternoon-Sun 20 Mar

[jonesthepilot]

Any ideas what happened at Spangdahlem this afternoon? Plenty of calls from Spang Tower on 121.5 ordering 'civilian aircraft on finals, do not land here, go around, you do not have permission to land at Spangdahlem Airbase.' The aircraft did land, was told to stay on the runway(which he didn't do, taxied off) and got the controllers very hot under the collar.

[hetfield]

Are you talking about Spangdahlem, ETAD?

[barit1]

Is that SOP to instruct an "intruder" to remain on the runway? It would be an obstacle to military ops.

[Bevo]

Yes it is SOP. You don't want the "intruder" to have access to the ramp and all the multi-million $ aircraft until you have established the nature of the threat.

[Wander00]

Shades of "Entebbe" exercises on Taceval in the 80s!

[green granite]

I wonder which airfield he was actually talking to and thought he was landing at? :)

[sled dog]

Mistook it for Bitburg ?

[sycamore]

Probably Bitburg...5 miles S-W

[floppyjock]

I watched a motor glider land at Gutersloh in 98 and park up thinking he was at Munster Osnabruck. He was talking to Muster tower all the time. I stayed in the VIP suite (only room left) at Spangdahlem one night. Very interesting visitors book in the room signed by high ranking officers. I couldnt resist signing it as a Sgt.

Floppy