ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 162412
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| Date: | Wednesday 20 November 2013 |
| Time: | 21:20 |
| Type: |  Boeing 747-409LCF Dreamlifter |
| Owner/operator: | Boeing, opb Atlas Air |
| Registration: | N780BA |
| MSN: | 24310/778 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1990 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 71751 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney PW4056-1C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Serious incident |
| Location: | Wichita-Colonel James Jabara Airport, KS -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK) |
| Wichita-McConnell AFB, KS (IAB/KIAB) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Inadvertently landed at wrong airport KAAO, Colonel James Jabara Airport, Wichita, Kansas, USA. The 6101 ft runway is too short for take off.
Fortunately the next day the plane was able to depart from the airport without problems.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this incident to be:
the flight crew's failure to properly identify the airport and runway of intended landing. Contributing to the incident was the flight crew's failure to follow company procedures for crosschecking navigational information and visual cues to verify the airport and runway of intended landing.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/21/boeing-747-mistakenly-lands-at-small-kansas-airport.html?intcmp=latestnews
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N780BA/history/20131120/2355Z/KJFK/KIAB
http://www.kptv.com/story/24032024/boeing-cargo-jet-lands-at-wrong-airport
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25032380?ocid=socialflow_facebook_bbcnews
https://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/21/travel/kansas-cargo-plane-wrong-airport/
http://nationalpost.com/news/boeing-747-dreamlifter-jumbo-jet-mistakenly-lands-in-small-kansas-airfield-colonel-james-jabara-airport
https://www.buzzfeed.com/passantino/massive-plane-mistakenly-lands-at-a-tiny-kansas-airport-and
http://web.archive.org/web/20131209020037/http://www.kwch.com/news/local-news/boeing-dreamlifter-lands-at-jabara/-/21054266/23081256/-/oma90hz/-/index.html
Location
Media:
Boeing 747 Dreamlifter still stuck after landing at the wrong airport. You gotta hear the tower tapes #liveonkomo pic.twitter.com/Yejr0dq83a
— Michele Morin (@OneLMorin) 21 november 2013Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Nov-2013 11:46 | sperandiopg | Added |
| 21-Nov-2013 11:55 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Nov-2013 11:56 | harro | Updated [Embed code] |
| 21-Nov-2013 19:58 | harro | Updated [Embed code] |
| 22-Nov-2013 05:00 | Flanker | Updated [Source] |
| 22-Nov-2013 08:33 | gerard57 | Updated [Narrative] |
| 23-Nov-2013 07:03 | MarkStep | Updated [Source] |
| 28-May-2017 13:36 | harro | Updated [Source] |
| 19-Aug-2019 14:19 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 02-Jun-2023 19:44 | harro | Updated [[Aircraft type]] |
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