Welcome to Dusseldorf... err... Edinburgh.

[Quattro Pete]

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The error was down to an incorrectly filed flight plan, leading both the pilot and cabin crew to believe the flight was bound for Edinburgh.
Whose job is it to verify whether a flight plan was filed correctly? Just curious that no one caught this. Does this happen often?

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/...ds-in-edinburgh-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

 

[PandaBear]

I heard there was once a plane crashing into a mountain because the pilot entered the wrong code into the flight destination mid way of the flight, was that an urban legend?

 

[MolaKule]

Free trip to Scotland?

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We flew the passengers on the flight with number BA3271 to Dusseldorf after the involuntary stopover in Edinburgh.


Hmmm. Obviously, Fuel burn was more than had been planned!

 

[john_pifer]

Originally Posted by PandaBear
I heard there was once a plane crashing into a mountain because the pilot entered the wrong code into the flight destination mid way of the flight, was that an urban legend?


I believe you're talking about the tragedy that was Air New Zealand Flight 901:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_New_Zealand_Flight_901

 

[4WD]

Wow … I'm sitting in the BA Houston lounge and just realized who it was …
well, pretty sure we are heading to London

 

[PimTac]

I think there is more to this story that we haven't heard yet.

 

[Astro14]

Originally Posted by PandaBear
I heard there was once a plane crashing into a mountain because the pilot entered the wrong code into the flight destination mid way of the flight, was that an urban legend?


It wasn't the wrong code.

Many fixes have the same code.

The crew entered the correct code, but selected the wrong waypoint of the several offered in the flight management computer.

In the Andes, it was a fatal mistake.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_965

 

[DoubleWasp]

You'd think that the flight announcements or something would have been a giveaway to somebody.

 

[Astro14]

Originally Posted by DoubleWasp
You'd think that the flight announcements or something would have been a giveaway to somebody.


You presume that people are listening to the Captain's welcome aboard.

My experience suggests that is the exception, not the norm. I see people buried in their phones when I'm talking, after all, what could be more important than their virtual world and social media?

 

[BusyLittleShop]

Originally Posted by Quattro Pete
Does this happen often?


Ever hear of "Wrong Way" Corrigan???

In July 1938, Corrigan piloted the single-engine plane nonstop from
California to New York. Although the transcontinental flight was far
from unprecedented, Corrigan received national attention simply
because the press was amazed that his rattletrap aircraft had survived
the journey.

Almost immediately after arriving in New York, he filed plans for a
transatlantic flight, but aviation authorities deemed it a suicide
flight, and he was promptly denied. Instead, they would allow Corrigan
to fly back to the West Coast, and on July 17 he took off from Floyd
Bennett field, ostentatiously pointed west. However, a few minutes
later, he made a 180-degree turn and vanished into a cloudbank to the
puzzlement of a few onlookers.

Twenty-eight hours later, Corrigan landed his plane in Dublin,
Ireland, stepped out of his plane, and exclaimed, "Just got in from
New York. Where am I?" He claimed that he lost his direction in the
clouds and that his compass had malfunctioned. The authorities didn't
buy the story and suspended his license, but Corrigan stuck to it to
the amusement of the public on both sides of the Atlantic. By the time
"Wrong Way" Corrigan and his crated plane returned to New York by
ship, his license suspension had been lifted, he was a national
celebrity, and a mob of autograph seekers met him on the gangway.

 

[john_pifer]

Originally Posted by BusyLittleShop
Originally Posted by Quattro Pete
Does this happen often?


Ever hear of "Wrong Way" Corrigan???

In July 1938, Corrigan piloted the single-engine plane nonstop from
California to New York. Although the transcontinental flight was far
from unprecedented, Corrigan received national attention simply
because the press was amazed that his rattletrap aircraft had survived
the journey.

Almost immediately after arriving in New York, he filed plans for a
transatlantic flight, but aviation authorities deemed it a suicide
flight, and he was promptly denied. Instead, they would allow Corrigan
to fly back to the West Coast, and on July 17 he took off from Floyd
Bennett field, ostentatiously pointed west. However, a few minutes
later, he made a 180-degree turn and vanished into a cloudbank to the
puzzlement of a few onlookers.

Twenty-eight hours later, Corrigan landed his plane in Dublin,
Ireland, stepped out of his plane, and exclaimed, "Just got in from
New York. Where am I?" He claimed that he lost his direction in the
clouds and that his compass had malfunctioned. The authorities didn't
buy the story and suspended his license, but Corrigan stuck to it to
the amusement of the public on both sides of the Atlantic. By the time
"Wrong Way" Corrigan and his crated plane returned to New York by
ship, his license suspension had been lifted, he was a national
celebrity, and a mob of autograph seekers met him on the gangway.

That's freakin' hilarious!

 

[4WD]

Originally Posted by Astro14
Originally Posted by DoubleWasp
You'd think that the flight announcements or something would have been a giveaway to somebody.


You presume that people are listening to the Captain's welcome aboard.

My experience suggests that is the exception, not the norm. I see people buried in their phones when I'm talking, after all, what could be more important than their virtual world and social media?


True and I have seen several airlines resort to entertainment style safety briefings …
(And they cannot put vice device away … but are walking aimlessly in a busy airport)