A quick story of how easy it is to land at the wrong airport.
The 747 mob I used to fly for had a bit of an incident one day when landing in Lagos, Nigeria. It was the middle of the night, they arrived over the top of the airport and were heading on the outbound leg of the instrument approach and the tower gave them the 'clear to land' instruction. As they were heading outbound for a couple of minutes and descending all the power went out at the airport and surrounds. However, the local military airport still had power (diesel generators) and so was still all lit up nicely. So when they made the turn to come back inbound all they could see was the military runway lit up so they headed for it. It's a surprisingly easy mistake to make.
So they landed (plane was full of Hajji's) and saw that the far end of the runway was coming up at them pretty quickly so the Captain stomped on the brakes to make it pull up in time, which it did. A quick moment of panic and they figured out that they'd landed on the wrong runway & airport so they turned the big aeroplane around, set the flaps, did some quick calculations for the speeds and away they went at full thrust. On landing at the correct airport (power back on of course) they blew a heap of tyres because they were all overheated from the one big stop plus another stop a short time later, so the plane was beached just after it left the runway.
But their problems didn't stop there ... Because they'd landed at a military airport the military types all woke up and got a bit excited. As the 747 was getting ready to leave their little runway they all piled into cars & trucks to go out to the runway to find out WTF was going on. But just as The Colonel in his jeep (they bought a Jeep) got to the end of the runway and was unfortunately behind the 747 as the the crew gave it full power ... which did blow the jeep over. No real injuries fortunately and a small pile of money was handed over to smooth things over.
