REFLECTOR: FW: getting majorly lost

[gstull at tampabay.rr.com]

I work for a major airline. Soon after I started there were 3 incidents of airline pilots landing at the wrong airports. One in Tampa, landed at MacDill. One in Cincinatti and one in Miami. These were all professional airline pilots on commercial flights. Go figure.
---- Alex Balic <velocity_pilot at verizon.net> wrote: 
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> This is a bit off topic, but I just was reading through my Nov.  Flying mag
> in the "on the record" section, there was a Moony pilot that crashed
> recently because he was flying at night and he ended up at the wrong airport
> with associated terrain differences- pilot got minor injuries, but he
> admitted that he was at the wrong airport, which can happen if you don't use
> GPS and there are airports in close proximity, but the report mentioned that
> the airport he was expecting was in another STATE! So I looked them up- and
> they were 150 miles apart!  Report didn't state where he started from, and
> how far he had travelled to get that far off,( according to the report he
> was using dead reckoning at night (genius))  but that is some major bad
> piloting.  I guess it was amazing that he had not become a statistic years
> ago, but folks like this make my insurance go up, and give GA a bad
> reputation too- seems the longer I am around, the more pilots that really
> should not be flying seem to show up, even with currency requirements and
> flight reviews.
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