When on March this year a Ryanair jet wrongly landed at a military airport rather than into City of Derry airport , 5 miles away

http://www.guardian.co.uk/airlines/s...742657,00.html

http://www.airliners.net/discussions...1/6/#ID2693111

I followed with great interes that incident and the NEXT day Ryanair made a complete explanation of what happened , and not only that, but the plane was inmovilized for investigation .

Resulted that the pilot, following a visual aproach , confused the derry airport runaway with the runaway of a close military airport only 5 miles away . The pilot was the solely responsable , not the aircraft equipment or ATC .

Ryanair provided ALL the details , despite been a plane operated by Eirjet on behalf of Ryanair .

It's interesting the comparison between the quick and FULL response of the Ryanair incident in march , with the SECRECY in wich SAS is treating this incident .

In Spanair case the plane landed not 5 miles but 400 miles away

As you can see in this map the distances between SCQ and SVQ are big ...
http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=S...OR=&MAP-STYLE=

Ryanair made the correct thing and clarified all the next day ....

.. with Spanair 2 weeks .. and counting ...