A B747-200 first officer; fatigued by duty cycles out of sync with his diurnal cycle; entered oakb v...

Narrative:

Just before entering afghanistan airspace the pilot not flying contacted kabul ATC on VHF 2. I was monitoring VHF 1 (karachi ATC) and also listening in on VHF 2. When I heard the pilot not flying telling kabul that our destination was kabul (oakb) I corrected him and told him that our destination was bagram (oaix) and he relayed that to kabul ATC. Abeam kandahar (oakn) I did my approach briefing and we continued our flight. At siblo we got radar vectors by kabul ATC. After extensive vectoring for approach we realized that something was not right since our position did not match up with our bagram approach in the FMS. When we told the ATC controller that our destination was bagram he advised that was news to him. He was vectoring us for an approach to kabul. We then got vectors for bagram and landed there. I've learned to make sure that ATC controller knows your landing airport and pay close attention to where he is vectoring you for an approach.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A B747-200 First Officer; fatigued by duty cycles out of sync with his diurnal cycle; entered OAKB vice OAIX as their destination. Two failed vectors for landing occurred before the flight crew became aware of the anomaly and subsequent vectors to the correct airport were successful.

Narrative: Just before entering Afghanistan Airspace the pilot not flying contacted Kabul ATC on VHF 2. I was monitoring VHF 1 (Karachi ATC) and also listening in on VHF 2. When I heard the pilot not flying telling Kabul that our destination was Kabul (OAKB) I corrected him and told him that our destination was Bagram (OAIX) and he relayed that to Kabul ATC. Abeam Kandahar (OAKN) I did my approach briefing and we continued our flight. At SIBLO we got radar vectors by Kabul ATC. After extensive vectoring for Approach we realized that something was not right since our position did not match up with our Bagram Approach in the FMS. When we told the ATC Controller that our destination was Bagram he advised that was news to him. He was vectoring us for an approach to Kabul. We then got vectors for Bagram and landed there. I've learned to make sure that ATC controller knows your landing airport and pay close attention to where he is vectoring you for an approach.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1186334
Time
Date	201407
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	OAKX.ARTCC
State Reference	FO
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dawn
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B747-200
Flight Phase	Descent
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Track / Heading All Types Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown

A B747-200 first officer; fatigued by duty cycles out of sync with his diurnal cycle; entered oakb vice oaix as their destination. Two failed vectors for landing occurred before the flight crew became aware of the anomaly and subsequent vectors to the correct airport were successful.