Widebody; Low Wing; 2 Turbojet Eng
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Situational Awareness
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance; Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification
Human Factors
We were given incorrect vectors after established on ILS for 18C at 2000 ft. We were twice asked to change direction of the jet to 150 degrees which is the wrong way to sidestep to 18R when established on 18C. I first took the vector as for someone else (18L was closed) but after repeating the new vector clearance a second time I said 150 isn't going to get me to 18R. He immediately vectored us to 210 and we complied. As PM; I went to my EFB; called up 18R and dialed it in. As the runways are close parallels apparently not quick enough as we flew through and we corrected back. Though I didn't see precisely; I don't think we were that far right of 18R centerline. When I looked the runway was in sight and we were correcting back to the ILS centerline. No conflict was seen or presented by all concerned. The controller apologized profusely about his error before switching us to tower.I don't have a positive suggestion. At a critical mid-point in the arrival for an instrument final approach segment; the direction we were given was just flat incorrect. It is worth mentioning that reason we were changed to the right runway was an aircraft had blown some tires landing on our original runway. I believe we were second to next for the fouled runway. Still; a vector for left 30 degrees for a runway to our right is unacceptable.
Air carrier Captain reported instructed by ATC to turn the wrong direction to intercept the Runway 18R localizer; twice. When queried; the Controller issued the correct heading and apologized for the error.