Talk about flying of course.
At the wrong airport – a group of Buddha Air passengers were probably not too happy to get off a domestic flight to Nepal.
On Friday afternoon, 69 passengers boarded flight U4505 from Kathmandu, bound for Janakpur in the south, The Kathmandu Post reported. However, a misunderstanding between the ground staff and the flight crew resulted in the pilots flying northwest towards Pokhara – about 230 miles from the destination.
A Buddha Aircraft 1900D aircraft taxis at Tarmac in Bhutan. On December 18, a group of Buddha Air passengers, on their local flight to Nepal – were not happy to get out of the wrong airport. (By Ed Jones / AFP Getty Images)
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Birendra Bahadur Basnet, managing director of Nepali Airlines, lamented the situation, saying Buddha Air was already investigating the incident. Another official for the carrier added to the confusion of the ideal less than ideal, which exacerbated flight delays at the Kathmandu airport earlier in the day.
“There was a misunderstanding between the ground staff and the pilots,” an unnamed official told the Post. “Even the flying pilots looked at the passengers’ manifestos.”
However, the passengers were informed by the flight attendant that the plane was heading towards Pokhara but not Janakpur, though nothing could be done as the plane was already airborne.
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“It’s a commercial error … or you could say it’s a human error,” Bessen explained. “Our internal committee will recommend the appropriate system to avoid repeating the error in the future.”
To his advantage, Tri Ratna Mandhar, former director general of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, claimed that commercial Nepali flights had not flown in the wrong place since 1993.
