Plane Lands ON WRONG RUNWAY AFTER ‘POOR JUDGEMENT’ FROM PILOT

An investigation into a plane that landed on the wrong runway has determined that the two pilots were both at fault. The incident occurred when an Iran Air flight from Isfahan touched down at Tabriz airport in Iran on 3 October, reports the Aviation Herald. Flight IR-449 had been cleared to land on runway 12L but landed instead on 12R, a mistake which the report put down to “captain’s error” and “poor judgement with respect to organisational factors” on the part of the first officer, who was… (www.independent.co.uk) More...