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Commercial air carriers have either landed at the wrong airport or started to land and realised their mistake in time on at least 150 flights, an AP search through US government safety databases and media reports since the early 1990s found.
The list of landing mistakes includes six reports of pilots preparing to land at California’s Moffett Field, a joint civilian-military airport, when they meant to go to Mineta San Jose International Airport, about 16km to the south-east.
