2003-08 · NASA ASRS report 590716
APCHING MIA RWY 9L AN ACR IS ON THE TWR FREQ FOR FLL.
I WAS CONDUCTING AN FO IOE AND WAS FLYING THE FIRST LEG OF OUR SEQUENCE; AS IS CUSTOMARY WITH OUR CYY3 ARR PROCEEDING NORMALLY; WHEN APCH CTL HANDED US OFF TO MIA TWR WITH A FREQ. ON CONTACT; WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS MIA TWR; CLRED US TO LAND (RWY WAS NOT MENTIONED -- AND I DO NOT REMEMBER WHETHER THE TWR NAME WAS SPOKEN). WHEN WE WERE ON SHORT FINAL; ABOUT 2 1/2 MI; THE TWR CTLR SAID; 'ACR X; WHERE ARE YOU.' THE FO REPLIED AS TO OUR LOCATION; '2 MI OUT FOR RWY 9L;' TWR SAID; 'ACR X; YOU ARE ON THE WRONG FREQ. THIS IS FORT LAUDERDALE TWR. CONTACT MIAMI TWR;' WHICH WE OF COURSE DID AND GOT A PROPER CLRNC TO LAND ON RWY 9L. THIS WAS A SERIES OF HUMAN ERRORS. APCH CTL MISTAKENLY GAVE US FT LAUDERDALE TWR FREQ. FT LAUDERDALE MISTAKENLY DID NOT ISSUE CLRED RWY. WE DID NOT NOTICE THOSE OMISSIONS. IT IS EXTREMELY FORTUNATE THAT FT LAUDERDALE CAUGHT THE ERROR WHEN THEY DID. LESSON FOR ME IS TO BE VIGILANT ABOUT HEARING THE NAME OF THE PROPER FACILITY AND THEN MAKING SURE THAT THE CLRED RWY IS ALSO SPECIFIED IN THE LNDG (OR TKOF) CLRNC.
More incidents for this aircraft family
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
Loading the flight search…
Pick an aircraft model — Boeing 737, Airbus A320, A380, Boeing 787 Dreamliner and more — enter your origin airport, and FlightFinder shows every route that plane flies from there with live fares.
We support Boeing 737/747/757/767/777/787, the full Airbus A220/A319/A320/A321/A330/A340/A350/A380 family, Embraer E170/E175/E190/E195, Bombardier CRJ and Dash 8, and the ATR 42/72 turboprops.
Search and schedules are free. Pro ($4.99/month, $39/year, or $99 one-time lifetime) unlocks the enriched flight card — on-time stats, CO₂ per passenger, amenities, live gate & weather — plus My Trips with push alerts.
Live schedules come from Amadeus, AeroDataBox and Travelpayouts. Observed routes (which aircraft actually flew a given city pair) are crowdsourced from adsb.lol ADS-B data under the Open Database License.