Plane LANDS AT WRONG AIRPORT | Whiteman vs Burbank
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The way he then acted like nothing happened got me laughing.
Do you know of any other airplanes that actually landed (not almost, but actually) at the wrong airport? Respond to this comment with yours.
I start with USAF C-17 Globemaster landing at Peter O. Knight, Tampa, FL.
A DC-8 intending to land at PDX landed at Troutdale airport back in 1962.
2013 a Boing Dreamlifter landed at a GA airport instead of McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita Kansas.
British Airways 3271
It made it into the national press here in Germany.
Southwest did this in Branson, MO. They didn't land at Branson though.
In Poland, EPPO (a civilian airport) and EPKS (an air force base) have runways (very similar in lengths and orientation) almost in one line, when approaching from the east, you pass the EPKS first. There have been a few instances of civilian aircraft landing at EPKS by mistake - but at the same time that hasn't happened since 2007
That is the aviation equivalent of "the walk of shame".
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You could hear the sigh of resignation in his voice when he said "positioning for landing runway 15." 😩😂
If you don't acknowledge your landing at the wrong airport did it really happen 😂😂
The Navy have this tradition of vandalizing a jet that landed on the wrong carrier, usually marked with "Must be Air Force" 😂
@@09shadowjetBAHAHAHAHA
For all the critics out there who can't understand how this happened, here is some more history. this flight was on January 15th. The crew day started at about 7pm (after dark) with a flight from Van Nuys (very close to Whiteman) to SFO. Then a flight SFO to RNO, then RNO to SFO, then SFO to BUR. The Burbank landing was after midnight. The approach they were set up for by SoCal took them along the foothills and perfectly lined up for runway 15 at BUR, which is also perfect runway 21 at Whiteman (WHP). There is no instrument approach to 15 at BUR, so you can't back up the visual. Although Whiteman is technically open at midnight, their tower goes home at 2100 local (they leave the runway lights on). I think this was a single pilot jet, after a multi-leg flight, getting a different runway than they expected, at night. Pretty easy to see what went wrong. Thankfully nothing more than a bruised ego in the end.
Would they be able to see the runway numbers when going in for landing at night?
Something in the system horribly failed. The intent of you post was an explanation, and it was a good one. But it's also excuses. The pilot shouldn't have been alone, shouldn't have been fatigued, 15 at BUR should have ILS, or all of the above. Landing without clearance is very dangerous.
Surely you can back up the FMC with a visual point from a runway etc. in the 737 you can anyway. Either way. Mistakes happen and I can totally relate to long multi sector days! He can go home and have a laugh about it over a beer
They would have noticed they were landing on the wrong runway on final when the heading indicator didn’t match the assigned runway number. I always verify my head in with the runway number on final approach.
@@Tianton1 You can back up the FMC, and don't call me Shirley
I was the co-pilot on this flight. Yes we were very tired. Extremely fatigued 😩
Glad you guys are safe! Sounds like a long day.
Also I hope you submitted a NASA report!
the video didnt show - but did you guys do the takeoff safety calcs?
In the airline world when you are fatigued you call crew scheduling, they pull you off your flights for 10 hours, and get you a hotel room no matter where you are.
It is a non punitive event, so no matter why you’re fatigued, or if you’re even fatigued you won’t get in trouble. This is regulated by the FAA and the airline will get in trouble for firing a pilot for being fatigued in the interest of safety.
That being said, us pilots still internally struggle with calling in fatigued. Knowing that you’re about to leave the rest of the crew stranded, the rest of your trip is going to be messed up, and potentially taking a hit in pay make it practically hard to call in. Plus we all have egos, we want to toughen up for 1 more leg. Especially if you’ve been on a nice flow of flights through the day, you don’t want to disrupt it.
So I get it man. You’re probably going to have a bunch of people saying “you shouldn’t have flown if you were fatigued! Bad pilot!” But that’s just not how it works. Especially as a paid pilot, and especially transporting time sensitive medical patients!
I’m glad you guys are safe, and I’m sure you will learn from this mistake.
@@ghostrider-be9ek lol I was thinking the same thing, fuel requirements, takeoff performance etc.
Just guessing -- they probably had RWY8 in NAV but the switch to 15 vaporized that safety net. Then the discussion on parking kept them occupied as they were rebuilding their mental approach. It's just good that it's a whoops and not a tragedy.
that's why I included that change of runway comm. Definitely was a last second change that had them busy, then finding the field and new runway visually in night time... not easy, I'm sure.
@@VASAviation Or maybe, if you have to pee REALLY BAD, you'll take the first runway that appears in front of you.
@@y00t00b3r The ol' "declaring a peemergency"
I'll see myself out, thanks...
@@kaasmeester5903 "don't forget to tip your waitress".
@@y00t00b3rTrue. Not pictured in the video: pilot quickly jumps out at Whiteman to take a whiz behind a tree.
Back in 1967 a TWA 707 landed at Ohio State University airport, thinking that they were at Port Columbus Airport. The runway was about half the length they were supposed to have, but the pilot landed it safely. They removed all the seats and extra equipment so they could take off and get it to Columbus to refit it.
Same thing happened in Portland in 1968, United #861 DC-8 landed in Troutdale, about 7 miles away.
2012: "a U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo plane bound for MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Fl., accidentally landed at tiny Peter O. Knight airport.
The pilots were apparently so tired after a 12 hour flight from Italy that they landed the giant plane at an airport frequented by small propeller planes - leaving the C-17 stranded for several days until its cargo could be offloaded, making the jet light enough to take off from the 3,580-foot runway, which is maybe a third the length of the runways at MacDill."
I've done this in P3D and VATSIM a few years ago in the same situation with a cleared visual approach to 15. I saw a runway about where it should be in generally the same direction and called the field in sight. It's not a hard mistake to make if you're overconfident and not cross referencing it.... then again, that's why I'm flying my spare desk and not a real plane.
😂
Lol 😂
It happens so much that some approach charts mention the potential for confusion between airports.
Night time and that LA smog/haze it's very easy to mistake Burbank and Whiteman on that RWY15 visual.
Never flown there, I can't tell, but METAR shows clear sky and pretty decent visibility , right? I'm not familiar with the RMK from the USA, any codes showing haze in there?
@@VASAviationno haze remark. Only 9SM CLR
@@agroallday I don't see a problem with that then
I think it’s ridiculous that a pilot flying as citation can make this error. Even in my Cherokee, I plugged the arrival into my navigator. There’s no way he should miss that. He should get a phone number to call. Definite pilot deviation.
@@dennisnbrownJust for clarification here, it was a last minute runway switch up while they were likely expecting the visual runway 8 backed up by the RNAV. They were instead given runway 15. Likely unfamiliar with the area, and when on base to 15, runway 12 can look like the runway you’re going to - especially if you aren’t aware Whiteman is there. There are no instrument approaches to runway 15, so there’s nothing to back the visual. It’s an unfortunate mistake, but it’s not hard to see how it was possible.
I used to perodically visit Whiteman. I once had to do an emergency landing there. Compared to Burbank, the runway at Whiteman is a lot shorter and narrower, with more threatening obstacles on either end. Good thing the aircraft was small enough to land there...
A new pilot and student pilot who was talking to North Las Vegas Tower while flying his Cherokee 180, up close & personal in pattern for Nellis with a F105. Ask me how I know.....
How
An F-105?! That had to have been a few moons ago! 😲
Kicking in an open door: ... how do you know? 🤭
Also many moons ago I was flying with my dad into Meacham Field in Fort Worth Tx. We were coming in from the east and the controller also had a plane coming from the south straight in. He told the plane from the south to report 5 south…the pilot reported 5 south…the controller gave him a not in sight continue report 3 south…the pilot reported 3 south… not in sight continue report 1 mile final…the pilot did, the controller said not in sight tell me what you see…the pilot said “I see a bunch of bombers.” Can you say Carswell Airfoce base…lol. The controller gave an emphatic go around and explained the situation to the pilot. I still get a laugh when I think about it.
Airforce base that is.
I wonder how much fatigue may have contributed to this incident since it occurred around midnight.
It was after midnight but they had only 3 hours on the clock. I'm noyt sure how much was in the air.
Medevac pilots rotate frequently to avoid fatigue
Its medevac, the expectation is to be able to manage fatigue no mater day or night shift. Maybe this pilot would be better off at an airline
This reminds me of when the Dreamlifter landed at Jabara (tiny) instead of McConnell AFB by accident. It was a sight see.
This happens more often than one might think. You say, "Oops!" and carry on. Then you file a Form 277 so NASA has it in their database. If there appears to be a pattern, they will make recommendations to the FAA in order to alleviate the problem.
This is why, when you’re not intimately familiar with the destination airport/area, you should back up a visual approach with avionics!
there is only one approach to runway 15 at Burbank and that's the Four Stacks Visual Approach. There are no navaids on the approach. Avionics aren't going to do you much good when expectation bias kicks in. With mountains on the left and your visual cue being smoke stacks on the right to make a 90* turn, seeing a runway is not a surprise and I'm sure it's happened before.
@@Chris-de2qh all one would need to do is make KBUR the final waypoint in the flight plan on the GPS. The pilot would instantly know he still had X miles to KBUR vs landing short!
Most semi modern fms boxes allow you to select a runway and extend it.. If not select the airport. Or using ipad. But I understand fatigue plays a role.
@@Bren39 This and most modern GPS units have a "visual" approach option to select and it moves the VOR CDI needles just like a regular GPS approach... at least they do for my local airport. My local airport also has a GPS approach to the same runway so I don't know if the unit uses that to move the CDI needles when the visual is selected though.
This is a Citation V.
Amazed at the professionalism by all. No demeaning nor degrading comments were made.
A decade or so back before GPS was common, it wasn't unusual for pilots coming from the east to mistake S39 for RDM. Both had Runway 28. A "not in sight, runway 28 cleared to land" was shortly followed by the pilot apologizing for lining up or landing at Prineville.
Even a box hauler from PDX lined up on RY10 at S39. Would be nice to have a tower display.....
No shade on the crew from me, lest I think it could never happen to me. That's a lot of flying in one day - night doesn't help, and a runway change doesn't help. One things that would've helped here, and in many other past cases of "wrong runway or wrong airport" is a SANITY CHECK OF THE HEADING INDICATOR. If you're on final for rwy 15 and your heading indicator shows '120' ish, then you either have a 30 deg crab going on (rare), or you're lined up for the wrong runway. I've done a lot of quick turns in the sim before here at home and a check of the heading indicator prior to departure has 'saved' me twice. There was a famous accident in a CRJ from an airport in Kentucky that had diverging runways with the departure ends being more or less on top of each other. Had the crew checked the heading indicator while being lined up prior to starting the takeoff roll, it would've prevented the incident. Same thing here. I'm just relieved they were able to get the jet stopped given that they had performance numbers for an entirely different airport.
It happens. You can only understand if you’ve been in a cockpit at night with multiple airports nearby.
KWHP and KBUR look NOTHING alike at night
I've been in that position a thousand times, and never landed at the wrong airport!!!
Ah the "pilots" that have never made a mistake....
@@chester8420 no one has said that.
What people are saying is that KBUR looks NOTHING like KWHP. The four stacks visual looks nothing alike if you are landing at BUR vs WHP
And the biggest issue is that the FMS would never let you make this mistake if it was properly used.
This is a TNFlyGirl Level of dumbassery
So wanna try again?
@@chester8420 Some mistakes shouldn't happen, PERIOD!!!
Wooow. Impressive how he remains calm. a great professional pilot
As soon as I saw the caption I knew it had to be SoCal😅
I'm sure this isn't the first time this happened. No harm other than the controller concerned about losing radar contact
That .... "uhhhh" from 4LR @02:39 was the moment he knew, he F#cked Up. 😅 Simple mistake. Happens to the best (and the worst of us) at least once... 😂 Glad the medevac landed safely at KBUR!
there's "pilot deviation" and then there's "pilot deviation"... you could hear his own butt-kicking in his own voice, but yowza, so glad there wasn't any traffic airborne or on the runway. Whew.
Explain the pilot deviation here and cite the FAR's the FAA will use to investigate.
There are many airports that can be mistaken especially at night by pilots on visual approach. I prevented this inadvertent event for aircraft landing PDX thinking TTD was PDX many times during my eight years working ATC at Portland
"Yeah tower, um, when you're ready, go ahead and give me that number to call..."
A friend talked to tiny general aviation airport, but almost landed his little Cessna at Miami International. He was so shook he quit flying.
This must happen regularly here. The ATC didn't seem that phased by it all.
It's not the ATC's job at that moment to comment on this. Rather, their job is to keep everyone safe, which they did. There's plenty of time to copy phone numbers and file reports when everyone is safely on the ground. Where they landed is unmanned airport and the TWR didn't even have radio contact there. They did the very right thing by staying professional.
It was good the runway was long enough! These things can get you in trouble... really bad! I'm glad everyone is OK.
Cool that the Police helicopter was able to relay the comms like a radio repeater.
Sucks that the radios sucks so often
Lucky there was no plane lined up ready to take off or taking off at the same time they were landing 😦
Roger by Bur Twr at 2:13 shows that he is used to it.
It was as if the pilot hoped atc hadn't noticed.
This cracked me up hard.
The attempt at nonchalance in “tower, lima romeo back up” 😂
We're ALL just human after all! No harm done other than a damn good story over a beer👌Hope this video gets a million views and the crew can frame their fame🙏
Was waiting for tower to say "still cleared to land" 🤣
Well when he saw the rwy was 12 instead of 15, that should have been his final verification that this was the wrong airfield
It used to be so common in Norfolk that Norwich Airport had the name painted on the 04 threshold in HUGE lettering. It was in line with and near to RAF Coltishall.
Both had runways 04/22, just 5.25nm apart and almost exactly in line. Now Coltishall is long gone, I can reveal why it was such an issue. Not only was Coltishall home to the SEPCAT Jaguar, a declared NATO asset, but it housed what were euphemistically known as tactical special weapons, so unsurprisingly, security was (in local parlance) "as tight as a bull's arse in fly time". Definitely not somewhere you want to arrive at unexpectedly, as you would be enthusiastically greeted by a considerable number of serious-looking gentlemen in blue/grey uniforms (RAF Regiment and RAF Police), and enjoy a nice long conversation with them in a nice, windowless concrete box with the rather sparse furniture bolted to the floor and an armed guard outside. At least they had two different shades of brown liquid described as tea and coffee. I had to wait in there on my first visit (by road) while my security clearances were checked, and about halfway through that little inconvenience, I did get a cup of decent coffee. It wasn't very comfortable, and they were being nice to me - I would hate to have been there under less accommodating circumstances. The first visit to any site with that level of security always took that long to get through the main gate security, and I'd been warned of it in advance, so not too bad, and was without an obviously armed guard, so not all that intimidating. It would be scary as hell if you had landed there unannounced and with no security clearance at all.
It was possible to fly in as a civvy, but it took weeks to arrange and you had to have a good reason, like the one I had, as a consultant for an IT system which had servers there on which root access was only available through the console, and what needed to be done definitely needed root access.
The time saving made it worth flying in instead of driving (which would have entailed an overnight stay), and best of all, it was all expenses paid. Great for keeping the hours up with the cost of private flying in the UK 🙂
Not the first and won’t be the last. A couple of years back a C17 landed in the wrong airport as well
Pilot’s pals: “Oh, look at you! Thinking you’re all Harrison Ford ‘n 💩”
Tried to be sneaky and keep things on the DL, but nothing escapes @VASAviation!
Airlines and air force have done it too.
Pilot: I'm positioning for runway 15. When I get on the ground again which tower do you want me to call? I have both numbers.
Why call any tower?? Whiteman tower closes at 20:00.
@@SquawkCode He was talking to a tower. He could leave a message at the other?
@@beachbum77979 Whiteman tower closes at 8pm. He wasn't required to talk to anyone when he landed and took off from there. I don't know of any regs that he violated. 🤷♂️
He did the visual at Whitman. Successfully I might add, so no regulations violated no need to call anyone.
A proud graduate of the Harrison Ford School of Aviation.
12 can look like 15 if you flip the 2.
Nah, they at least landed on a runway. The graduate of the Harrison Ford School of Aviation would be the Air Canada flight that lined up with a taxiway.
Sorry, had to laugh at the "wrong airport"
As an instructor evaluating students and would-be renters,
.... I've had people who are already licensed pilots line us up to land at the wrong airport,
and even a mall's parking lot at night :)
Preparing for approach at night nearing two airport runways only a few miles apart and controller is telling you about closures then asking where you're parking. I am not faulting the tower but that might've been too much to multi-task.
not for a 2 person flight deck
it's normal
@wjatube Uuuuh…no
Ouch the runway numbers of 12 and 15 could also look similar, at a quick glance, when seen from a distance.
This happened to me one time when I was trying to get a carne asada burrito but accidentally parked at the Sushi truck!
I was an ATC at BUR for two years and I NEVER had anyone land at the pea patch called "Whitman" by mistake.
Ever had anyone line up for it or neither?
Did you switch runways on them and then chit chat with them about where they want to park?
The hasten taxi animation added some gags to this, as if it is embarrassed
This is one of my worst nightmares lol
Tower was closed at WHP so luckily didn't bust any airspace. :-P. We'll just call it a "modified" right base
Waay back when this was Whiteman AFB this happened quite often. It was so bad that there was a monthly office pool with squares. Even the SP's got so used to it happening they started taking the place of the follow me truck.
LOL'd when he said "you got the field?" 🤣
Many years ago an Indonesian air force C-130 was flying to Richmond RAAF base, NSW Australia. He lined up on the main street of the nearby town of Windsor.
I saw the co-pilot's statement that they were tired. Hopefully, this has been a teachable moment for them. Now . . . Car 54 where are you?
Perfection in anything is a delusion.
I talk to that controller at KBUR all the time. He’s super cool! Can’t really tell from this video but it appears that the pilot is lucky he didn’t get a possible pilot deviation from Burbank.
I learned to fly at Whiteman (and BUR and VNY). WHP’s runway is so short I can’t believe he even spotted that airport.
If you’re coming over those hills by Valencia, the runway is pointed right at you. But yea the closer you get you see that it’s just a tiny airport with missing crossing runway that BUR has.
@@essel23fly one’s a tiny, 4000’ asphalt strip you wouldn’t want to land anything bigger than a piston twin, the other is a Class C airport with intersecting runways. Not just a simple error.
That is a 'Class 1 Whoopsie.'
Who let Harrison Ford out again?
It may or may not have helped (judging the distance vs affirmation) but should not tower wait for confirmation "runway in sight" for giving landing clearance on a visual approach?
If the aircraft has been cleared for the visual approach, that clearance means itself that the pilot has the airport in sight
This is why you always back up a visual approach with an instrument approach if it’s available. Unfortunately, there are no approaches to 15 in Burbank.
Any modern GPS capable avionics has Visual Approaches loaded in the database. Including RWY 15 into KBUR.
The G1000, G3000, and FMS-3200(in the Citation) just to name a few… they ALL will extend the runway center line allowing the GPS to capture it just like any LOC or RNAV approach without vertical guidance.
This should be part of any IFR approach procedure and checklist. I always load the Visual just as I do any other ILS, RNAV or LOC approach and cross check the Plate with what’s loaded into my Avionics.
Then I fly the approach visually by hand with the GPS backing me up. Or just let the AP capture and fly the final approach while I manage the decent myself.
@@lyingcat9022 how many medevac aircraft have you flown
@@cdesha none… 🤨
What exactly does that have to do with your original comment or my response?
You made a general statement that seems to tell people you can’t back up the Visual for 15 into KBUR. And I’m telling you and any Pilots unfamiliar with newer GPS capable avionics that there is an easy way to do so. The GPS offer Lateral Navigation for RWY 15 or any other runway in the database regardless if there is a Published Instrument Approach or not.
@@lyingcat9022 most medevac aircraft are minimally equipped. That’s all.
@@cdesha yeah I agree with that and it sounds like this airplane may not have been GNSS equipped so yes in their case they are probably shtt out of luck.
This is a good example of why a lot of Operations have a policy to NOT to accept a visual approach at night, near terrain, or at an unfamiliar airport.
Especially if they had no way to back up the approach with instruments.
OOPS and that was a MediVac flight. At least he did not get the dreaded "I have a number for you to call, let me know when you are ready to copy"! !! !!!
I once landed at Cottage Grove instead of Cresswell. It happens.
that could have been deadly... yikes!
Nothing to see here , literally for the BUR twr 😞🤣
Hard to land a jet with its tail between its legs.
What's the situation, Ollie?
I'M AT THE WRONG AIRPORT!
Oof. That's wmbarassing.
Not to mention dangerous.
Cause aint NOBODY expecting him where he landed.
BTW that is some of the crispiest audio I've ever heard.
most chill pilot deviation ever XD Whoops I landed at the wrong airport, my bad. No problem cleared runway 15 burbank
No phone number to copy? What if a patient died?
This is ludicrous
N904LR... Possible pilot deviation... I have a number for you to copy down when you're ready...😕
It wasn't in the recording but did approach actually ask them if they have Burbank in sight? It just sounded like he just cleared them for the visual himself.
I learned to fly at Whiteman airport, You go from Whiteman to Burbank in 30 seconds in cessna 172. I could see how that mistake was made
I love all the “ we get tired and it happens” comments. Yeah and we crash too
Asking about parking in critical phase of flight not cool. But, pilots messed up.
I always ask that to myself. Guess it is for coordination with handling (or just Million Air could contact ATC and let them know it's them taking care of the ambulance) or maybe suggest runway exit for shortest taxi distance? Anyway, I consider this should be done way before the final approach phase or after landing.
I guess he wanted to know if Charlie being closed was going to be relevant to them.
@@VASAviation ATC should have taken the hint when they didn't respond the first time. They were busy in that cockpit.
Can a pilot say "unable, ask later"?
@@sharpjs Absolutely. "Standby" means exactly that.
I live in Los Angeles and this almost happened before with a commercial aircraft. I think it might have been Continental Airlines way back when and they almost landed at Whiteman. Would have probably crashed and killed everyone. Way back in 80s or 90s. Plane was also headed to Burbank. Disaster averted in seconds.
I don't think he needed to acknowledge the mishap; the tension in his voice said enough.
Therefore, good job on the part of the tower controller to leave things for what they were. He was on top of it.
I don't believe Runway 15 has any instrument approach, and there is quite a bit of terrain on that approach. At night it'll be a handful, epsecially if the change was unexpected. And Whiteman Runway 12 is right there, looking very similar with lights all over the place - just a tad shorter. This sort of mix up happens a lot a TUS, so much that on a visual approach they ask if you have both TUS and DMA in sight.
Funny thing is, I don't think they technically violated any tangible regulation since WHP is untowered.
These are my home airports and there's noooo waayyyy you can get those 2 airports confused. Somethings very wrong here especially when our guy flys out of whiteman and does a 360 to find burbank... its literally directly in front of you ..
This would be like getting LAX and Hawthorne confused. Very odd.
That's an easy claim to make when they're your home airports.
@@wsgut123Eh not quite. You can’t see runway 8 well at night from that angle, so both airports just look like they have one runway. And the 360 I’m pretty sure was to set up to give themselves a long enough final rather than find Burbank.
Wrong airport!!!!
May Next time Wrong country
Last month a LATAM flight almost landed at the wrong airport due to a GPS discrepancy
Always blows me away that BUR only has a visual plate for RWY 15.
Not surprised
Harrison Ford has left the chat.
Landing at the wrong airport is easier than you may like to believe. I might have done it once or twice. 😊
ATC must have been worried. It wouldn't be the first time a stressed out Citation driver had ended their flight prematurely and permanently in recent years.
I hate when I take the wrong exit off the interstate, such a waste of time and gas!
Before I was a pilot, I probably would've ridiculed this guy. Not so much anymore.
These guys are under some serious fatigue, working MEDEVAC is no joke. Crazy hours, not enough pay, crappy hotels and constant rush to get to their destinations.
Some operators prohibit a nighttime visual for 15 because of Van Nuys
Well, that's embarrassing.
Hopefully the “medevac” wasn’t carrying anything to important or maybe I’m totally off base and assuming what “medevac” call sign implies.
gotta give them medevacs some credit. still got down and safe in even shorter notice!! Then up again :) Is there any ATC at whiteman?
It was closed at the time
Doh!
That's an easy mistake to make. They saw a runway and landed on it.....Without any sort of electronic backup.
Paperwork time....
Oops! No harm, no foul.
To: VASAviation: Hmmmm? I lived in So. Cal for over 4 decades and have never heard of "Whiteman" airport.... turns out via Wikipedia, to be a general aviation and rotary wing airfield in Pacoima, L.A. County, Cal.. I know where Burbank airport is, having made a couple of cargo truck deliveries there in the 1990's. Anyone have an idea how the passengers or cargo were off loaded at an airport without a terminal or airstairs?
I thought the video was talking about Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, where my son had been stationed years ago. 🙃 This lost pilot in the video probably would have been shot down if he had tried landing there. 🤕
That's one pilot deviation .
Why??
Oops! Well, no harm, no foul, and you have a story to laugh about years from now!