Delta passenger plane mistakenly lands in US air force base
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[url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/09/delta-passenger-plane-mistakenly-lands-in-us-air-force-base[/url]
[quote]A Delta Air Lines jetliner with 130 passengers on board landed at the wrong airport in South Dakota on Thursday evening, said a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the incident.
The Delta A320 landed at Ellsworth air force base at 8.42pm Central Time on Thursday, when its scheduled destination was a nearby airport in Rapid City, NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said on Friday.
Ellsworth is about 10 miles (16km) due north of Rapid city regional airport. The two airports have runways that are oriented nearly identically to the compass, from north-west to south-east. Delta Flight 2845 had departed from Minneapolis.
A passenger interviewed by the Rapid City Journal said she and her fellow passengers waited about 2½ hours in the plane at Ellsworth, where they were ordered to pull down their window shades as armed military personnel walked through the cabin with a dog.[/quote]
Holy shit, I was just at Ellsworth a couple of weeks ago. The aircraft they have there are noisy as fuck.
If its destination was only 16km away, I can see how that happened.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;50676936]Holy shit, I was just at Ellsworth a couple of weeks ago. The aircraft they have there are noisy as fuck.[/QUOTE]
It wasn't on a Delta Airlines aircraft was it?
[QUOTE=Bradyns;50677216]It wasn't on a Delta Airlines aircraft was it?[/QUOTE]
Army truck.
Just a few minor differences.
Imagine if there was a conspiracy theorist on the plane.
reading the article it seems like the airforce probably should have done something to prevent this after it happened 10 years ago
[QUOTE=Thlis;50677331]Imagine if there was a conspiracy theorist on the plane.[/QUOTE]
They should had landed at Area 51 then, head would pop.
[QUOTE=Tools;50677961]They should had landed at Area 51 then, head would pop.[/QUOTE]
Maybe at las Vegas? but it's unlikely they wouldn't shoot it down.
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