This one?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bvK6enoQDg

Never knew a DC-8 could operate on 3200ft of runway and only use 2800ft of it per the narrator.  I would have thought 5000-6000ft would be the minimum.   But I did hear some interesting stories about unmarked DC-8s off old WWII strips somewhere in the middle east as part of a weapons delivery deal, so maybe they were a lot better than 707s at short field operations.

 
I know a guy that flew to the wrong airport after selecting the wrong code in the Garmin.


Wouldn't have been a big deal if the guy in the right seat wasn't an FAA examiner.  

Gonna be difficult to do that with an Humvee parked in front of your aircraft and a Sky Cop on the M-60 pointing it at you, along with a dozen or so of his buddies all around the aircraft doing the same thing.

After they get you stopped and figure out if you're a danger or just lost then they get the pilot off the plane, check him, then the rest of the crew and passengers and put them in a holding area.  The flight crew has to deal with all the paperwork for an unauthorized landing while the aircraft if checked.

Had to ride herd on that being done a couple of times.  Then we had to play good hosts and assist in coordinating fuel deliveries and maintenance for the aircraft so they could leave.

In one case it was a light aircraft flying at night that lost all its electrical power when the alternator belt broke.  The pilot saw a C-141 on approach pass him and he followed it to the base to be able to land.

Pretty smart move on his part, because past midnight we were the only airfield with the lights on in that part of the state.  That probably saved his and his family's lives.

We got them set up in a hotel for the night and the next morning a mechanic from the Philly area came out and got him repaired.  Then a truck came out with fuel and he was flying again before noon.

The second time it was a two seater flying near the base when a line of thunderstorms blew up.  He looked a the thunderstorms and then at the AF Base and figured he liked his odds with the Sky Cops better than with the bad weather.  After all the fun and games he needed fuel delivered when the weather cleared and then he resumed his trip.

We had that issue at a private airport. Landed on the wrong runway about 10 miles short of our target location. It made complete sense when the guy that came out was not the guy we were supposed to meet. Luckily, our FAA guy (who even took some time in the left seat) was an old school guy and made fun of us until he passed away. There wasn't much that would bother him. The other clowns, he worked with, were morons!

Wtf?    .  How does that even happen?       And what are the odds that some flaming gay dude would be there, filming the whole thing?  

FBHO  its his fault

I mean that's pretty close. Probably better than I could do.

Minimum fuel load, no cargo, back all the way to the end, flaps, stand on the brakes, engines to full power, sit there a second and make sure they spool, release and WHEEEEEEEEEEE!

Sum
Ting
Wong

IIRC it was at night  Runways both north and south orientation, One airport just north of the other one.

Well at least they managed to land on a runway and not a taxiway like they did a few years ago in ATL.

Another of life's embarrassing moments

Go back.  Video was posted.   Day VFR.      Landing at the wrong airport is easy, if they are similar.

But a 3400 civilian  GA airport  looks nothing like a large military airport.  

Click the link.    Even the gay student pilot knows something is amiss.  

I'm wrong. Thinking of another incident.  I've been into that airport its Little. Seawall around most of it.

It was an interesting feat of airmanship, no doubt.    But somewhere in the approach, common sense and self preservation should have took over.    

this is bound to come up at the pilots next performance review.

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Edit: no performance reviews outside of recurrent training events I should say. But no "sit down with the boss and let's go over the last year" reviews.

I was in the pattern at KTUS a few weeks ago listening to the tower try to explain to some guy that he was lined up on KDMA (Davis Monthan AFB).  They eventually had him turn around and try again.

Here is a good one from when I was a kid , The guy landed a DC-4 on 1,000 feet of dirt runway http://wikimapia.org/6141534/Polk-County-Pot-Plane

Yep, that one!