DC-8 WRONG
AIRFIELD IN VIET NAM - April 1969 Video
| Seaboard World DC-8 lands at Marble Mountain- Vietnam.m4v |
During the Vietnam War, a contractor-operated DC-8 landed on the wrong
airfield in South Vietnam.
The control tower cleared the DC-8 to land at Da Nang Air Base, and by
mistake the co-pilot landed the plane at Marble Mountain Airfield a
remote operating location near Da Nang with a 3200 foot runway.
This event is pretty well-known history among the "Non-Sched" flight crews
flying the MAC charters in and out of Viet Nam.
When Seaboard World Flight Operations got the word on what happened, they
contacted Douglas Aircraft Corp for advice.
Douglas said "take the aircraft apart and ship it home". FAA said the same
thing.
Instead, the pilot and co-pilot elected to try and get airborne on a less
than adequate length runway and succeeded, getting in the air about 300
feet from the end of the runway.
For safety concerns, the flight hostesses were left behind at the remote
airstrip.
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