Originally Posted by ghilis101

Allow me to interject since I'm now a high risk candidate for landing at the wrong airport. In the past year, both the airplanes I currently fly (747-400 and c-17) have landed at the wrong airport. Both airplanes have "magenta lines" and a thousand ways to back up the approach. One of them has a HUD.

The c17 was being flown by a crew of all instructors (check airman equivalent)

The Atlas 747-400 crew by default is very senior (most junior captain is 12 years or so).

So what's our takeaway? It was a bad day, we've all experienced such incredible fatigue that we swear up and down we didn't do what we just did.