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XFool wrote:BA flight lands in Edinburgh instead of Düsseldorf by mistake

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Good job the Lancaster pilots didn't do that 80 years ago.

Nimrod103 wrote:

XFool wrote:BA flight lands in Edinburgh instead of Düsseldorf by mistake

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Good job the Lancaster pilots didn't do that 80 years ago.

Would never have happened. My mother was a WAAF plotter operating out of Turnhouse RAF base (now Edinburgh airport) during WW2.

She could tell a Lancaster from a Junkers.

You'd have thought one of the passengers might have noticed that they were going the wrong way. And not over water.

Slarti

Slarti wrote:You'd have thought one of the passengers might have noticed that they were going the wrong way. And not over water.

Slarti

Not sure exactly what time it was, but it might have been dark.

Scott.

I liked the bit where the pilots asked the passengers for a show of hands over whether they thought they were going to Düsseldorf.

Pity they hadn't done that at the start of the flight.

swill453 wrote:Not sure exactly what time it was, but it might have been dark.

07:30 out of London City, sun would have been up and as at least one passenger was a regular you'd think that they'd notice that it was in the wrong place

Slarti

I catch a lot of 07:00 flights and I am normally asleep by the time we reach the runway. The effect of the safety briefing is just like flicking the sleep switch in my brain, that and the 03:15 alarm to get to the airport on time. At the other end I generally wake either as the wheels hit the ground, or as the undercarriage gets lowered. So I can perfectly understand regular fliers paying zero attention.

Occasionally I am woken by an overly loud anouncement from one of the pilots ticking his/her "chat to the customers in a condescending manner" box, which I really wish they'd stop doing on shorthaul. Let's face it if they are going the wrong place it is no big deal, and they can't change the weather at the other end so not much point announcing it. Best they stay quiet.

regards, dspp

swill453 wrote:

Slarti wrote:You'd have thought one of the passengers might have noticed that they were going the wrong way. And not over water.

Not sure exactly what time it was, but it might have been dark.

Or cloudy.

I like to think I would have noticed because I am usually conscious of where the sun is and the time of day. So flying North rather than South-East would be easy to determine if and only if the position of the sun was visible.

Also these days many passengers like to pull down the window blind so they can use their devices. It's the prerogative of the person in the window seat to deprive those around him or her of an exterior view..

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