Landed at Peter O'Knight, on runway 22 (3400ft), a few miles to the northeast of a similarly orientated runway at MacDill AFB. http://www2.tbo.com/news/news/2012/...argo-plane-lands-at-davis-islands--ar-437276/
OP, the story is copyrighted material, you should publish a link or this thread is going to get locked.
I recall the C-17 is good to go with less than 1,500 ft of concrete. $1 bet that it takes off with a different crew.
Happens sometimes... http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...zIKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IUsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5378,2382445
I've landed at Peter O'Knight several times (my dad would get his annual done there) and I'd swear that picture was photoshopped. Not because I don't believe the story, but because that's such a small airport. Air work/Landing - Above SA - Below Net average flight.
In comms on FB with someone who is at the airport. New crew has arrived and they're anticipating getting it to MacDill shortly.
Update from about a minute ago: "The C17 has taken off from TPF, jumped across Tampa Bay, and landed at MacDill AFB. Its take off roll was just shy of 2000 feet on the 3500 foot runway." Oh and BTW - CENTCOM CINC was onboard when it landed...
Maybe, could be they took the easy vectors to the visual and thought they had the correct field in sight. No way of knowing without being there.
I can imagine the thoughts going thru his head after he initiated the thrust reversers and stomped on the brakes looking at all of the bug smashers on the ramp.
He had a "Klong". As defined in one of William Safire's political novels, A "Klong" is the rush of shit to your heart when you realize you've totally screwed up, there's no way to fix it, and everyone knows about it.
The more I think about it, the more it absolutely baffles me. Sometimes things happen that are b beyond your control, or the Swiss cheese just doesn't work out for you, but this is ridiculous.
I've definitely bit off on the wrong field before, looking outside, but your instruments are your friends in those situations. Easy to do in some places. If the needle that's pointing to the navaid at your desired point of landing is 90 degrees off when you roll into the groove, time to reevaluate.
A "Klong" is when you take off at night in an A-4C, thinking your canopy lock handle is over center, when at ~100 kts. your canopy departs (arming the seat with the face curtain flapping in the breeze), slicing off the top 6" of the vertstab....but luckily, it's a 13,500' rwy, so allowing a no problem abort! That's a Klong...don't ask me how I know! BzB
Didn't a Southwest 737 land at an OLF that was 3 miles short of final to the regional airport? At least, that's how I remember the story going.
People mistake Cabiness OLF in Corpus enough with Corpus International that there's a permanent NOTAM about it. Cabiness is oriented the same as Corpus, not that hard to do on the visual I'd imagine.
