The flight on Monday seemed to go perfectly well, until passengers realized that their plane had landed in both the wrong city and the wrong country.
The British Airways flight from London City Airport was supposed to head to Duesseldorf, Germany, but ended up in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.
The airline said Monday the problem started when an incorrect flight plan was filed by WDL Aviation, which operated the flight on behalf of British Airways. Officials say the pilot followed the flight plan for Edinburgh, and that air traffic control officials also were following the same flight plan and saw nothing amiss.
WDL aviation said it was trying to determine the cause of the “obviously unfortunate mix-up.”
The flight was refueled and set off again, this time directly to Duesseldorf.
(AP)
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Like drivers who follow their GPS blindly, wherever it may lead them. Neither the pilot nor the co-pilot realized something was wrong when they didn’t see the North Sea below them, or when they saw mountains where none should exist!
Pilots don’t always know where they are flying to until right before the flight.
These pilots probably showed up for a regular day of flying and when they received the flight plan it was to Edinburgh.
They probably only realized something was amiss when all the passengers started complaining.
Same thing by ATC. They saw a regular flight plan filed from London to Edinburgh. How were they supposed to know that it wasn’t supposed to go there.
The one who files the flight plans is the Aircraft Dispatcher. It was probably him that made the mistake.
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