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Southwest aircraft lands at wrong airport

A Southwest Airlines aircraft with more than 100 passengers landed at the wrong airport in Missouri yesterday


The flight from Chicago Midway airport was due to land at Branson airport on Sunday evening, but it instead arrived up at Taney County airport.


The two airports are about seven miles apart and serve the same area of southwest Missouri.


An airline spokesman told CNN said he did not have enough information to say why the Boeing 737 landed at the wrong location.


The landing by the aircraft, carrying 124 passengers and five crew members, was uneventful and everyone is safe, he said.


The Southwest Airlines website said the flight had arrived at Gate 3 of Branson airport.


The 737, which departed Chicago about an hour late, arrived roughly two hours and 20 minutes behind schedule at Branson, according to the website.


Hawkins declined to say whether the flight had flown on to Branson airport from Taney County airport.


The Federal Aviation Administration said it is investigating the incident. CNN said it first learned of the landing error from tweets from the region.

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