A Southwest Airlines jet carrying 124 passengers landed at the wrong airport, the question is, how did that happen in USA. The aircraft on sunday landed on a small airport M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport in Taney County, Missouri, about seven miles from where it was supposed to land at Branson Airport.
The Jet stopped about 500 feet from the end of the small airport runway.
M. Graham Clark airport's runway is 3,738 feet long, about half the length of the Branson Airport runway, which is 7,140 feet. That forced pilots to act fast and brake hard when the aircraft touched down. If the pilot had not, the plane could have raced pass the end of the runway, tumbled down an embankment and ran onto U.S. highway 65.This had its passengers shaken by the experience that the worst could have happened. I am really happy the pilot applied brakes the way he did to avoid the worst but he has a lot of passenger safety procedure questions to answer. Southwest said the flight's captain had worked for the airline for 14 years and the first officer had been with the company for 12. Both pilots have been put on paid leave pending an investigation, the airline management said.
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