Landing on the wrong island

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An Olympic Airways Aerospatiale ATR-42-300, registration SX-BPA performing flight OA-6 from Athens to Naxos (Greece), was on a visual approach to Naxos' runway 36 and had been handed off to Naxos tower, when the airplane was seen in full landing configuration on final approach to Paros' runway 35 (length 710 meters/2300 feet) on the adjacent island. Paros tower called the airplane via his frequency and Naxos tower and ordered the airplane to go around. The crew aborted the approach and subsequently landed safely in Naxos (runway length 800 meters/2600 feet).

The daily Olympic Air flight OA-62, a Dash 8 from Athens to Paros had already arrived in Paros about 40 minutes earlier that day.

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