WASHINGTON – Five civil and military flights in the United States have landed at the wrong airport since 2012, a National Transportation Safety Board report says.
A Southwest Airlines plane from Chicago’s Midway Airport heading to Branson, Missouri, landed at the nearby Taney County airport, about nine miles away, instead, the report says. In 2013, a cargo flight from JFK Airport bound for an Air Force base landed instead at a civil airport, also in Wichita.
The report details three other incidents involving civil and military flights, including one in West Virginia.
The report recommends air-traffic control changes to prevent such mishaps, The Hill reports, including letting pilots know about nearby airports when issuing clearances to land, as well as modifying systems to check for deviations from flight plans.
