reporter: following the embarrassing foul-up, the airline is trying to make good with the passengers on board, offering refunds and travel credits. rene marsh, cnn, washington. that s incredible. only 300 feet from the end of that runway. that s not the only recent airport mix-up. just before thanksgiving, you may remember a mass of modified boeing 747 freighter missed a 12,000-foot runway at mcconnell air base in witchta, kansas, touching down instead at a small private airfield about ten miles away. again, the pilots were professionals and had every modern navigational tool at their disposal, but landed at the wrong airport. others have gotten the airport right, but chosen the wrong runway. others have landed on taxiways. we want to know why. joining us, jim tillman. good to have you on the program. do you agree that this is just inattention? that that s how this happens? well, i think that s the only thing that shows up so far, anderson. there s a lot we don t know about what
embarrassing foul-up, the airline is trying to make good with the passengers on board, offering refunds and travel credits. rene marsh, cnn, washington. that s incredible. only 300 feet from the end of that runway. that s not the only recent airport mix-up. just before thanksgiving, you may remember a mass of modified boeing 747 freighter missed a 12,000-foot runway at mcconnell air base in witchta, kansas, touching down instead at a small private airfield about ten miles away. again, the pilots were professionals and had every modern navigational tool at their disposal, but landed at the wrong airport. others have gotten the airport right, but chosen the wrong runway. others have landed on taxiways. we want to know why. joining us, jim tillman. good to have you on the program. do you agree that this is just inattention? that that s how this happens? well, i think that s the only thing that shows up so far, anderson. there s a lot we don t know about what happened. and i can only g