Southwest plane lands at the wrong airport

Source - The Southwest Airlines pilots who landed a plane at the wrong Missouri airport Sunday night have been removed from flying duty, pending an investigation, Southwest spokeswoman Brandy King said. Both pilots have been flying with Southwest for more than 13 years, she said.

The pilots repeatedly apologized to passengers who were stuck on the tarmac for two hours while steps could be brought over from Branson Airport to help them deplane.

While waiting, Schieffer and the other passengers ate peanuts provided by flight attendants. Southwest offered them a $200 travel voucher, he said.


When I first read this headline I figured we were talking full on wrong city. At least they were a few miles away. However, once you consider that fact that it was a tiny runway and they always tumbled down a cliff killing everyone the mistake seems pretty glaring. The worst part is they were stuck on the plane for two hours trying to get stairs that could get them down eating nothing but peanuts. Jetblue gave me 50 bucks because my plane was so delayed leaving Boston during Hercules. 200 dollars isn't even close to what these people deserve. 

I really want to know what happened to the pilot profession. Getting me across the country 35000 feet in the air is a big deal. These guys used to get standing ovations when planes landed, and they would roll around with the hottest crew of flight attendants in the game and fucked all of them. Now they are doing lines of coke of strippers tits five minutes before take off just to wake up. Or at least that's what I got from Flight. All I'm saying is no way somebody sober lands a jet at the wrong fucking airport.