Originally Posted by TVCMH

Bethune described a siuation similar to this in his Worst to First book. Two flights landed incorrectly, one ignored their landing configuration warning and ended up putting the plane down on its belly. The other was flown to the wrong airport which was close to the intended airport and had very similar runway layouts. Only the pilots in the former scenario were punished since the second was an 'honset mistake' using all available information.