The error of picking the wrong runway "is very common," he said, but only intermittently results in a crash.

"The captain, from beginning to end, didn't know he was using the wrong runway."

And just a few days after that, a Delta flight landed on the wrong runway of the Boston airport.

The cause was attributed to the flight crew navigating to the wrong runway.

Or a pilot turns onto the wrong runway for takeoff, as happened in Kentucky.

"If it had been a foggy or snowy day, I'm sure we would have ended up on the wrong runway."

But the two German pilots, after having received clearance for takeoff, taxied on the wrong runway.

Last August the crew of a jet trying to take off in Lexington, Ky., picked the wrong runway, which was too short.

You probably guessed it already: I landed on the wrong runway.

The initial approach may have been an attempted landing on the wrong runway, which occurred due to a last-minute shortening of the Tu-144's display.