Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / March 2006

Here in Tucson the runways for DAvis-Monthan Airfore Base and
Tucson International Airport are only a few miles apart and
parallel. There seemed to be frequent mistaken landings at the
AFB, especially since they were both runway 120. Now I see that
the TIA runway has been redisgnated as 110.

(Runways are numbered according to their compass direction.)

Some years ago a Frontier airliner landed at the completely wrong
town in Wyoming.

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Back in the piston / propeller days Allegheny Airlines (Agony), now US
Airways, had planes land at the wrong city in upstate New York twice
the same year.

My seat-mate out of San Juan had a story of a United Airlines 757
charter full of cruise ship passengers that landed at Isla Grande
instead of Munoz Marin SJU.  Isla Grande is the former San Juan main
airport with main runway in a similar direction to SJU - but
considerably shorter - and a few miles before SJU on the normal
approach.  The landing was safe but the runway too short for a takeoff
with the load of passengers.  And the airport didn't have any stairs
that were tall enough to reach a 757.  A set of stairs had to be
driven over from SJU - but it was rush hour and it took quite a while.
I gather that the cruise line held its sailing.

Are Eirjet Ryanair?