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Old 11-21-13, 08:12 AM   #1
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Default Oops, Dreamlifter trouble!

Someone's going to be flying a cargo plane out of Hong Kong in future.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25032380

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A Boeing 747 Dreamlifter cargo plane may be stuck at a minor airport in Kansas for some time after it apparently landed there by mistake.
The giant cargo jet was heading for McConnell air force base in Wichita but instead touched down at nearby Colonel James Jabara airport.
Remove everything, minimal fuel/crew, windy day (in the right direction) - no problem.

I recall this being done with a C-17 recently, and there was also an airliner landed in a field in Florida* I think and took off successfully.

*Edit - Found it - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110 in New Orleans, not Florida.

Edit #2 - More on the C-17, turns out they nearly landed at the wrong airport, realised their mistake and then landed at another wrong airport.

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As the C-17 approached Tampa, the pilot mistook a smaller airfield for MacDill, according to the account. The co-pilot and a crew member corrected him: It was Peter O. Knight, they said.
But it was actually Tampa Executive Airport, well northeast of downtown. So when the real Peter O. Knight rolled into view, they were expecting it to be MacDill.
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