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Back in the 1980s, the quip was that Delta stood for Don't Ever Land There Again. I believe that one incident had a pilot mistaking the Ohio State University ai
by cafard 5y ago
Back in the 1980s, the quip was that Delta stood for Don't Ever Land There Again. I believe that one incident had a pilot mistaking the Ohio State University airfield for the Columbus airport; the other was somewhere in the mid-South.
- sokoloff 5y agoTWA’s mistaken landing at Ohio State: https://www.dispatch.com/article/20120704/news/307049831 https://www.dispatch.com/article/20120704/news/307049831 The newspaper story makes little sense if read exactly as written since any jet has ample performance to climb away from a balked landing prior to touchdown, so I assume the realization happened after touchdown given the agreement upon review that stopping was the right call. There’s an image of this on the wall of the “new” (2019, maybe?) terminal building at OSU and I think a few sentences on the lightening they did to fly it out.