Pilot rapped for landing at wrong Indonesian airport

[viking9]

A foreign pilot has been suspended from flying after landing an Indonesian passenger jet at the wrong airport in a "serious" breach of safety, a transport ministry spokesman said on Monday. The Sriwijaya Air plane, carrying 96 passengers and six crew, was meant to land at Minangkabau International airport in the city of Padang, but instead descended to the Tabing air force base some 12 kilometres (seven miles) away.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pilot-rapped-landing-wrong-indonesian-airport-083504886.html

[viking9]

Lots more of them here;

http://www.thirdamendment.com/wrongway.html

[Graham Bell]

I seem to recall a pilot attempting to land on the Northern Perimeter Road at Heathrow not to many years ago.
Regards-
G.B.

[Anmer]

It was a contentious incident if I recall?  Bad weather at the time.

Then many years before there was the one trying to land at Northolt.  To avoid similar incidents they painted a sign on the local gasometers.   

From Wiki:

"On 1 June 1960, an Avro Anson aircraft suffered engine failure soon after take-off from Northolt and crash-landed on top of the nearby Express Dairies plant in South Ruislip. There were no fatalities. Later that year, on 25 October, a Pan Am Boeing 707, heading for Heathrow, mistakenly landed at Northolt with forty-one passengers on board.  A Lufthansa Boeing 707 also attempted to land at the station on 28 April 1964 but was dissuaded by a red signal flare fired by personnel from Air Traffic Control. In the days before navigational aids such as instrument landing systems (ILS) and the global positioning system (GPS) were available, the letters NO (for Northolt) and LH (for Heathrow) were painted on two gasometers situated on the approach to each airfield, one at Southall for the approach to Heathrow's diagonal runway (coded 23L) and one at South Harrow for the approach to Northolt's runway (then coded 26), in an effort to prevent a recurrence of such errors"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Northolt