amount of time, and you could smell the burnt rubber of the tires. >> reporter: the runway at taney county airport, about half the length of the runway at branson. minutes after touchdown, a contrite pilot. >> rest assured that we're safe and sound here. thanks again for your patience and again, i apologize. >> the runways at the two airports are only a few miles apart, a difference gps technology would have picked up. mark wise, an experienced pilot, says the pilots cleared to land at branson must have assumed the first airport they saw was the right one. >> how does something like this happen? >> well, inattention. now, whether that was for distraction, fatigue, or what the underlying cause was, because, again, remember, accidents and incidents don't generally happen from a single cause. so what caused these pilots to not pay attention during that final phase of flight?