Flight crew landed on wrong runway. Attributed to fatigue.

Attributes
ACN	327603
Time
Date	199602
Day	Thu
Local Time Of Day	0001 To 0600
Place
Locale Reference	airport : ric
State Reference	VA
Altitude	agl bound lower : 0 agl bound upper : 0
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Operator	common carrier : air carrier
Make Model Name	B727-200
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	descent : approach landing other
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Affiliation	company : air carrier
Function	flight crew : first officer
Qualification	pilot : instrument pilot : flight engineer pilot : commercial pilot : atp pilot : cfi
Experience	flight time last 90 days : 50 flight time total : 5000
ASRS Report	327603
Person 2
Affiliation	company : air carrier
Function	flight crew : captain oversight : pic
Qualification	pilot : atp
Events
Anomaly	incursion : landing without clearance non adherence : clearance other anomaly other
Independent Detector	other controllera other flight crewa
Resolutory Action	none taken : detected after the fact
Consequence	faa : reviewed incident with flight crew
Supplementary
Primary Problem	Flight Crew Human Performance
Air Traffic Incident	Pilot Deviation

Narrative:

Cleared for visual approach to runway 20. Mistook runway 16 for runway 20 and landed on runway 16. Probable cause was pilot fatigue. Could have been prevented by better xchk of HSI heading (which was set to runway 20) and outside references.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: FLC LANDED ON WRONG RWY. ATTRIBUTED TO FATIGUE.

Narrative: CLRED FOR VISUAL APCH TO RWY 20. MISTOOK RWY 16 FOR RWY 20 AND LANDED ON RWY 16. PROBABLE CAUSE WAS PLT FATIGUE. COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED BY BETTER XCHK OF HSI HEADING (WHICH WAS SET TO RWY 20) AND OUTSIDE REFS.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2007 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.