Wasn't taxiway victor once a runway at PVD? Similar events have happened before to airline crews and other professional flight crews. I recently read a report from a US Airways crew that landed on a taxiway in DTW and another about an NWA crew that landed at the wrong airport.
How did you explain it when the event happened the first time? Obviously there was some sort of failure of crew procedures or protocol. How was the incident resolved and what lessons did you learn from the event? Address it from the standpoint of a learning experience and be able to describe what happened and what you took away from the event.
Just like a DUI, having an incident/accident/violation isn't going to necessarily bar you from getting hired. How you talk about it is what is going to make or break you.
If anything, (as an interviewer), if you can tell me how you learned from it, what lessons you took away, and what you are doing now in your normal operations to prevent it from ever happening again, I don't have any problem overlooking it (given the fact you give me reasonable answers).
At the end of the day, it shows no less situational awareness than somebody that lands gear up... and there are plenty of those folks out there flying professionally.
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