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Buddha Air has apologized for the confusion (file photo).
A Nepalese airline has suffered a rather embarrassing mistake after a flight full of passengers landed at the wrong airport.
Buddha Air flight U4505 was intended to fly from the capital Kathmandu to Janakpur. However, the 69 passengers on board must have been a bit confused when they landed, as they were more than 250 km from their original destination in Pokhara.
The reason for the confusion was partly due to weather conditions, as a flight number was changed at the last minute to allow for landings in Pokhara. It is then thought that a “lack of communication” between ground personnel and pilots resulted in the flight heading in the wrong direction.
“Ground personnel transferred (on paper) 69 passengers from flight U4505 to flight U4607 which was actually cleared for Pokhara by air traffic controllers,” an airline official told the Kathmandu Post.
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“There was a lack of communication between the ground crew and the pilots. The flying pilots also did not look at the passenger manifest. “
After about 30 minutes at the wrong airport, the passengers got back on the plane and took off for the correct destination. The airline has promised an investigation.
This is not the first time an incident like this has occurred. Last year, a flight to the German city of Dusseldorf landed in the Scottish capital Edinburgh by mistake. It turned out that the flight plan documentation for the British Airways aircraft had been submitted incorrectly.
