Aserca flying to San Isidro now!!!!

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Just heard this on the radio. They said it wasn't the first time this happened.

However in my mind a pilot would ask and get permission to land on a certain strip.
 
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Quite easy to confuse unless the pilot is familiar with the area.By aeronautical standards they are pretty close together,

As this was probably a visual approach no instrument would show that this was not the correct airport except for a slight difference in magnetic heading on the runway.
Standard compasses are almost never used these days as other forms of navigation have taken over so that would not have been noticed.

Depending on the type of navigation equipment fitted,there should have been a few clues that this was not the right place but without knowing the weather conditions at the time,it would be difficult to speculate what references were being used for the approach.
If he received landing clearance from SDQ I can only assume limited visibility so the tower cleared him for an instrument guided visual contact landing in which case they would not have seen that he was not on the runway heading on their airport.

Too many factors come into play here so all would be conjecture at this time but looks remarkably like somebody will be back for a few sessions in the simulator pretty soon..

No harm done, except to someones ego and career path...
 
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It's been insinuated in the press it might have not been a mistake. The crew was informed they were going the wrong way but they didn't answer and just went on.
 
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You can have better info from a very reliable source here.

An Aserca McDonnell Douglas MD-83, registration YV3024 performing flight R7-422 from Caracas (Venezuela) to Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), was on approach to Santo Domingo's Las Americas Airport cleared to land on runway 17, however touched down on the runway 21 of San Isidro Airbase about 6nm northwest of Las Americas Airport.

Authorities in Santo Domingo ordered the arrest of a number of soldiers involved in the incident stating, that air traffic control issued a landing clearance on runway 17 of Las Americas Airport without realizing the aircraft was actually lined up to land at San Isidro Airbase. The crew was interviewed, without evidence of intention the crew and aircraft were released to depart San Isidro and make the short hop to finally land at their intended destination. This was not the first occurrence involving the two airports, due to the close proximity of the airports there had been about 10 such incidents so far.

Following the hop to Las Americas Airport the aircraft was able to depart for the return flight R7-423 the following day with a delay of 18.5 hours.

aserca_md83_yv3024_santo_domingo_160527_map.jpg
 
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http://www.iasa.com.au/folders/Safety_Issues/others/wrong-ways.html

March 24, 1977 - A Pan Am 707, bound for Las Americas Airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, mistakenly lands at San Isidro Air Force Base. See "Wrong Airport," Aviation Week and Space Technology, April 4, 1977.

December 1993? - An aircraft bound for Las Americas Airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic mistakenly lands at the wrong airport. (A report of this incident is included in the FAA/NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (#259037).)

June 1990? - An aircraft bound for Las Americas Airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic mistakenly lands at San Isidro Air Force Base. (A report of this incident is included in the FAA/NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (#149634).)
 
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Bred said:
You can have better info from a very reliable source here.

An Aserca McDonnell Douglas MD-83, registration YV3024 performing flight R7-422 from Caracas (Venezuela) to Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), was on approach to Santo Domingo's Las Americas Airport cleared to land on runway 17, however touched down on the runway 21 of San Isidro Airbase about 6nm northwest of Las Americas Airport.

Authorities in Santo Domingo ordered the arrest of a number of soldiers involved in the incident stating, that air traffic control issued a landing clearance on runway 17 of Las Americas Airport without realizing the aircraft was actually lined up to land at San Isidro Airbase. The crew was interviewed, without evidence of intention the crew and aircraft were released to depart San Isidro and make the short hop to finally land at their intended destination. This was not the first occurrence involving the two airports, due to the close proximity of the airports there had been about 10 such incidents so far.

Following the hop to Las Americas Airport the aircraft was able to depart for the return flight R7-423 the following day with a delay of 18.5 hours.

aserca_md83_yv3024_santo_domingo_160527_map.jpg
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I don't quite understand the 'arrests of several soldiers involved in the incident' bit.
I wonder what that's about?
 
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I was talking with a pilot and he told me that could happend when you are not familiar with the airpot and making the aproach in visual mode and has tu turn before landing, because the position of the San Isidro runway when you have the course that took the pailot if you dont turn like in U the runway that you see is the one from San Isidro not the one from Las Americas.
 
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