WASHINGTON 鈥� Five civil and military flights in the United States have landed at the wrong airport since 2012, a National Transportation Safety Board report says.
A Southwest Airlines plane from Chicago鈥檚 Midway Airport heading to Branson, Missouri, landed at the nearby Taney County airport, about nine miles away, instead, . In 2013, a cargo flight from JFK Airport bound for an Air Force base landed instead at a civil airport, also in Wichita.
The report details three other incidents involving civil and military flights, including one in West Virginia.
The report recommends air-traffic control changes to prevent such mishaps, , including letting pilots know about nearby airports when issuing clearances to land, as well as modifying systems to check for deviations from flight plans.
