Video: C17 mistakenly lands on rather short runway yesterday

[Stratofreighter]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl89Qg8ygPA[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6n29Ie2f7w[/youtube]

And as you can hear from the background noises they really weren't expecting General Mattis of US Central Command to appear at Peter O Knight Airport coming from "Southwest Asia", and certainly not with a C-17....

The C-17 take-off in the evening was a bit of a "non-event" in comparison...
http://www2.tbo.com/news/news/2012/jul/ ... ar-437276/ for a "top side aerial view"...

More details:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafe ... ht/1241349

http://southtampa.wtsp.com/news/news/13 ... port-tampa , and go to 01.50 for the actual take off...

C-17 Spec
Takeoff run at MTOW: 7,600 ft (2,316 m)[163]
Landing distance: 3,500 ft (1,060 m)

Peter O. Knight Airport:
This is about the length of the runway:
4/22 1,038m

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_O._Knight_Airport

[KIER]

Press release says ; It was unclear why the plane, headed to MacDill, made an unscheduled landing at the small airport near downtown Tampa.

This could be only one thing : The pilot landed at the wrong airfield. Maybe to focused on the runway 22 , that he looked at the wrong runway , the 22 of McDill is only 5 mile further ...


To the pilot ........


Kier

[DIMMU83]

Yeah, but I don't understand that he didn't realise the runway is a bit too short to be the 11421ft long runway at MacDills. This one was 3405ft.(more then 3 times shorter). Not the best move you could make with a general in the back of your plane