(CNN) -- A day after a Southwest Airlines jet with 124 passengers landed at the wrong airport, many are asking: How in the world could that happen?
"It's not common, but it's not unheard of," said pilot Mark Weiss, a 20-year veteran of commercial aviation who has frequently flown Boeing 737-700s, the same kind of aircraft that touched down Sunday at a small airport in Taney County, Missouri, about seven miles from where it was supposed to land at Branson Airport.
The plane stopped about 500 feet from the end of a runway at M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport, but no one was injured, said Chris Berndt, the Western Taney County Fire District fire chief and emergency management director.
"There are a lot of questions, and I suspect this is a matter of procedures not being followed, something along the long chain of everything you must do and constantly do as a pilot for safety," Weiss said.
A little background on myself, as well as being a world class Denver sports blogger I also travel constantly for my work. So I fly Southworst all the time. Its the airline for poor people, and it is a goddamn zoo. Everyone on those flights are either pissed off businessmen who couldnt get a delta flight, families who have a baby that isn't happy to be on this flight and needs everyone to hear her shreik. Every stewardess thinks shes a stand up comedian or Mariah Carey, and you have to sit through this shit because you forgot a battery for your headphones. Absolutely brutal. Some of the worst moments in my life have been dealing with this abortion of an airline. But if I had to deal with all that shit AND end up in some random airport in the middle of Missouri unexpectedly I'd lose every last semblance of my mind. be too much to handle, I'd legit quit my job and walk home Forrest Gump style.
Sidenote- Despite dealing with the scum of civilization and obnoxious stewardesses its still hands down the best airline. THAT is how shitty flying is.
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