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ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) -- A Northwest Airlines flight that was headed to Rapid City, South Dakota, landed a few miles off course at Ellsworth Air Force Base, and passengers had to wait in the plane for more than three hours while their crew was interrogated. [continued]
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Central/06/20/wrong.airport.ap/index.html
So how can this happen? With the control tower in Rapid City watching the flight on RADAR, and since I thought the pilots always communicate with the tower before landing...? Also, I am told that commercial jets usually land on auto-pilot now.
A similar thing thing happened in Van Nuys, Ca, some years ago. A commercial jet landed at an airport only for relatively small, private aircraft.
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