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Old 03-26-2019, 07:34 AM   #12
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I'll note again that I'm not a pilot so out of my depth here, but....


It seems that it would take pilots, and ground control, and basically everyone involved in flight operations to be on the same page about where a plane is heading. The pilots have to have thought they were supposed to go to E.



The only sensible explanation is that somehow the plane picked by flight ops to go the Edinborough was the plane that ground ops picked to go Dusseldorf.


So essentially, the plane got flown to where flight ops wanted it, but they took the wrong plane. It's like a bus driver running the Boston the NY run who gets on the wrong bus and takes a bunch of people to NY who thought they were going to Albany. That I could see happening.


Regardless, still a major shuck-up, but I doubt it's dazed and confused pilots lost in the sky.
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