{"id":703,"date":"2014-01-14T16:01:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T22:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2014-02-04T16:30:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T22:30:27","slug":"not-so-final-destination-landing-at-the-wrong-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Not-so-Final Destination: Landing at the Wrong Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/transport\/flight\/modern\/how-can-plane-land-at-wrong-airport.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/50\/Aircraft_approaching_runway.jpg\/320px-Aircraft_approaching_runway.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Airplane landing at sunset.\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Uh, ladies and gentlemen, this is the flight deck. Thank you for choosing Airborne Airways, where your destination is always up in the air. If you\u2019ll look out your window, you\u2019ll see&#8230;well, we\u2019re hoping you can tell us. Anything look familiar?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s preposterous, embarrassing and more than a little dangerous, but flight crews touch down at the wrong airfield or runway more often than you might think. Which raises the question: If GPS navigation can direct any idiot with a car to his or her destination, how can a trained flight crew with state-of-the-art navigation screw up so badly? In other words&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/transport\/flight\/modern\/how-can-plane-land-at-wrong-airport.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How Can a Plane Land at the Wrong Airport?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Uh, ladies and gentlemen, this is the flight deck. Thank you for choosing Airborne Airways, where your destination is always up in the air. If you\u2019ll look out your window, you\u2019ll see&#8230;well, we\u2019re hoping you can tell us. Anything look familiar?\u201d Yes, it\u2019s preposterous, embarrassing and more than a little dangerous, but flight crews touch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=703\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not-so-Final Destination: Landing at the Wrong Airport<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,54,46,31,13,43],"tags":[766,434,771,769,765,767,768,773,772,221,770],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer","category-electromagnetism","category-gadgets","category-how-to","category-technology","category-travel","tag-air-traffic-control","tag-aircraft","tag-area-navigation","tag-autoflight","tag-gps","tag-ils","tag-instrument-landing-system","tag-ntsb","tag-rnav","tag-satellites","tag-visual-approach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}