altogether. so, mistakes can be made. how dangerous? the fact that this runway was so much shorter than the runway at the correct airport, i mean, what kind of a risk is there? i mean, they were 300 feet from the end of this thing. anderson when i heard this story, i got goose bumps, i ve got to tell you. i really feel like we dodged a big one here. 300 feet from absolute disaster is what we re talking about. that s far too close. i mean, whatever the purpose that was going down when this happened or the reason for it, it s got to be corrected, because we dodged a bullet here. would they have been able to pull the aircraft up, having realized that the runway was that short? absolutely. that 737 is a very modern airplane, it has lots of power. the second they realized that they were crossing the numbers and realized, hey, this is the wrong airport, just push those throttles forward to the front wall and that thing will get out of there, you know. they could have aborted that and
the name of the airport, for the right one, is branson. the other one is another name altogether. so mistakes can be made. how dangerous i mean, the fact that this runway was so much shorter than the runway at the correct airport. i mean, what kind of a risk is there? they were 300 feet from the end of this thing. anderson, when i heard this story, i got goose bumps. i really have got to tell you, i feel like we dodged a big one here. 300 feet from absolute disaster is what we re talking about. that s far too close. whatever the purpose that was going down when this happened or the reason for it, it s got to be corrected. because we dodged a bullet here. would they have been able to pull the airport up, having realized that the runway was that short? absolutely. that 737 is a very modern airplane, has lots of power. the second they realized this was the wrong airport, just push those throttles forward to the far wall and that thing would
right one, is branson. the other one is another name altogether. so mistakes can be made. how dangerous i mean, the fact that this runway was so much shorter than the runway at the correct airport. i mean, what kind of a risk is there? they were 300 feet from the end of this thing. anderson, when i heard this story, i got goose bumps. i really have got to tell you, i feel like we dodged a big one here. 300 feet from absolute disaster is what we re talking about. that s far too close. whatever the purpose that was going down when this happened or the reason for it, it s got to be corrected. because we dodged a bullet here. would they have been able to pull the airport up, having realized that the runway was that short? absolutely. that 737 is a very modern airplane, has lots of power. the second they realized this was the wrong airport, just push those throttles forward to the far wall and that thing would
right airport, the one where they should have landed. the other one still says branson. a different chart, for the small airport, and it reads the same way, except for the fact that the name of the airport, for the right one, is branson. the other one is another name altogether. so mistakes can be made. how dangerous i mean, the fact that this runway was so much shorter than the runway at the correct airport. i mean, what kind of a risk is there? they were 300 feet from the end of this thing. anderson, when i heard this story, i got goose bumps. i really have got to tell you, i feel like we dodged a big one here. 300 feet from absolute disaster is what we re talking about. that s far too close. whatever the purpose that was going down when this happened or the reason for it, it s got to be corrected. because we dodged a bullet here. would they have been able to pull the aircraft up, having realized that the runway was that short?