Passengers were delighted that their flight seemed to go perfectly well and landed safely. But all of them got the surprised of their life when their pilot announced that they have landed in the wrong airport and in the wrong country.
A British Airways flight from London to Germany landed somewhere completely unexpected – Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. The flight was supposed to head to Dusseldorf, Germany, which was 525 miles away.
Airline officials said that the problem was the incorrect flight plan filed by the WDL Aviation, which operated the flight on behalf of British Airways.
The company also said that the pilot followed the flight plan religiously 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. The airline already apologized to the passengers.
Zsófia Szabó, one of the passengers of the flight, said that most of the passengers found this situation “quite funny.”
