Whoops! 
Not the first time.
I was on a friend’s Cessna, flying from Pittsburgh to Hershey. At one point he asked what highway I thought was below us. I thought he was quizzing me, but it turned out he needed to know to aid his navigation. Shocked me a bit.
And one time, to the wrong continent (though it may have been deliberate).
Here’s an incident from a few years ago where a Boeing Dreamlifter cargo plane was supposed to land at McConnell AFB in Wichita but landed at a small local airport north of town. Even though the runway was only about 2/3 what the plane would need for takeoff, they managed to get it in the air and land it across town.
IFR - “I fly roads”
When the folks that were going with me got out of their car and asked where we were going, I would point and say, “That-a-way.”
Sometimes I did not even take a map. Bawahahahaha
Oh, as to the OP), I have landed in the wrong place, wrong airport, used the wrong frequency and I used to land real regular at TUL in heavy traffic times without ever doing anything but click my mic button.
Been into some really big airports while IFR that were swamped with arrivals and never said another word after my ‘Thank you, 42Q’ to my last center controller. Approach control, and Tower only ever said, “Ident to reply.”
That’s one way to end one’s aviation career quickly, but without fatalities.
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Bob Newhart’s routine about flying to Hawaii on the Grace L. Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Company. The pilot welcomes the passengers, and asks if anyone has ever been to Hawaii before. “It’s sort of shaped like a liver, isn’t it?”
IFR - I Follow Railroads
VFR - Visually Follow Railroads
“Did you ever have one that hangs on?”
Here’s a YouTube video about an Air Force C-17 that landed at the wrong airport near Tampa.
The plane was able to fly out successfully (probably minus some equipment and most of its fuel).
Not as bad as landing at the wrong airport, but back in 2004 a B52 flew all the way from the US to do a fly past at the Farnborough Air Show (which starts tomorrow btw) and missed
In 2009 a domestic flight from California to Minneapolis overshot it’s destination by 150 miles before turning back.
Talks about missing your exit.
My father learned to fly a plane from a friend that was a pilot. A few years later bought a plane with plans to fly to Hershey (from Tacoma, Washington) for a big car show. Made it as far as some place in Wyoming when he flew into restricted airspace and was escorted by a military airplane to a local airport. It was then discovered the flaw in his planning, road maps didn’t show restricted airspace near military facilities. The FAA didn’t take kindly to an unlicensed pilot using road maps to navigate. Received a steep fine and had to hire a guy to fly his plane back to Washington. Never made it to Hershey that year.
Being as many pilots were once military pilots, I can see where they might fly into a city and out of habit head for the military airport they used to land at a zillion times.
I was on a small commuter flight in Michigan when I noticed the co-pilot had a road map unfolded on her lap; turned out the flight was following a railroad track—disconcerting to say the least.
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