Jan 13th 2014, 12:58, by Aaron Souppouris
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 touched down at the wrong Missouri airport Sunday night. The flight was scheduled to arrive at Branson airport, but landed instead seven miles away at Taney County airport. The small airport isn't set up for big jets; at 3,738 feet long, its runway is just over half the length of Branson airport's. The passengers were later driven to the correct airport, but the flight remains grounded for now. Scott Schieffer, one the flight's 124 passengers, tells Forbes contributor Grant Martin that the flight "landed very abruptly with the pilot applying the brakes very hard. We smelled burnt rubber from the stop."
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