NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE RIGHT RUNWAY
A Northwest Airlines DC-10 bound from Detroit to Frankfurt, Germany mistakenly landed in Brussels, Belgium-some 165 nm from Frankfurt-and the crew apparently was the last to know about the error. The confusion began in Shannon, Ireland, where a controller mistakenly changed the aircraft's...
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