Story out of South Dakota:
A Delta flight mistakenly landed at an air force base in South Dakota -- instead of the intended airport about 10 miles way
Delta Flight 2845 left Minneapolis for South Dakota on Thursday evening with 130 people aboard.
The Airbus A320 was scheduled to touch down at Rapid City Regional Airport, but landed instead at Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta said in a statement.
The airport and the air force base are just a few miles apart, and their runways point in nearly the same direction.
The airline said it has "offered a
gesture of apology for the inconvenience" to customers affected, but did
not provide specifics.
While rare, Delta is not the first airline to end up at the wrong airport.
Two years ago, a Southwest Airlines jet mistakenly landed several miles away at a Missouri municipal airport that did not have a control tower in Taney County. Cont.
Story from - CNN
Image from - Ron Cogswell - Flickr
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