Narrative:

We were dispatched to columbus; ms (ubs). I mistakenly thought we were going to columbus; GA (csg). I have previously been to neither airport and did not verify that I was pulling the proper approach plates. Once I made that error there did not appear to be anything that I was going to be able to do that would stop it. Somehow I got it in my head that we were going to GA and not ms and thus programmed the box as such. The routing was correct until (bna) nashville; tn. After that it was direct to the airport. Very soon after turning at bna the controller told us to make a right turn (approx 100 degree heading change) the controller vectored us for about 5 minutes and then gave us direct to the airport. During that time we figured out that I had programmed the wrong airport into the FMS. When I was first programming the FMS on the ground; I thought it was a little odd that there were no fixes between bna and the airport. It was a little over 200 miles. I looked to make sure that I was not missing any fixes and I was not; I just had the wrong airport in box.as this was an airport I had never been to before I should have taken the time to verify from the brief sheets and or the flight release that I was in fact pulling the proper approach plates and subsequently programming the FMS correctly. The PIC checked the waypoints but assumed that I had the destination airport in the box correctly. He indicated he had never been to this airport either. Carefully verifying and not assuming anything would have prevented this error.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CE680 crew is dispatched to Columbus; MS but mistakenly programs Columbus; GA into the FMC. A track deviation occured and the crew was corrected by ATC.

Narrative: We were dispatched to Columbus; MS (UBS). I mistakenly thought we were going to Columbus; GA (CSG). I have previously been to neither airport and did not verify that I was pulling the proper approach plates. Once I made that error there did not appear to be anything that I was going to be able to do that would stop it. Somehow I got it in my head that we were going to GA and not MS and thus programmed the box as such. The routing was correct until (BNA) Nashville; TN. after that it was direct to the airport. Very soon after turning at BNA the Controller told us to make a right turn (approx 100 degree heading change) The Controller vectored us for about 5 minutes and then gave us direct to the airport. During that time we figured out that I had programmed the wrong airport into the FMS. When I was first programming the FMS on the ground; I thought it was a little odd that there were no fixes between BNA and the airport. It was a little over 200 miles. I looked to make sure that I was not missing any fixes and I was not; I just had the wrong airport in box.As this was an airport I had never been to before I should have taken the time to verify from the brief sheets and or the flight release that I was in fact pulling the proper approach plates and subsequently programming the FMS correctly. The PIC checked the waypoints but assumed that I had the destination airport in the box correctly. He indicated he had never been to this airport either. Carefully verifying and not assuming anything would have prevented this error.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.