The Nation - News from Feb. 5, 1986
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The lack of an air traffic controller at the main Augusta, Ga., airport should not have caused a Piedmont Airlines pilot to land at the wrong airport, a Federal Aviation Administration official said, and the agency was investigating the incident. Steve McDowell, the pilot of a Boeing 737 en route from Charlotte, N.C., to Augusta with 106 passengers, mistakenly landed the plane at Daniel Airfield instead of Bush Airfield, the primary Augusta airport 6 miles away.
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