Man who captured C-17 landing at the wrong airport showed how the pilot took off again using only a tiny runway

Published on Dec 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis

Last updated on Dec 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by Emma Matthews

Take the feeling you’ve had the last time you’ve accidentally parked in a no-parking zone and multiply that by a million, because that’s probably how the pilot of this Boeing C-17 felt.

A while back, the captain of a C-17 Globemaster III somehow accidentally landed at the wrong airport, which means they touched the ground and then took off a second later.

And the runway was pretty short, so that must’ve been nigh on impossible.

Check it out in saintliam2003‘s clip above!

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