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03-25-2019, 06:48 PM
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by Sinéad Baker , Business Insider US Mar 25, 2019, 06:50 PM
A British Airways flight from London to Germany took off in the wrong direction and landed in Scotland:
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/br...cotland-2019-3
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A British Airways flight bound to Düsseldorf, Germany, from London accidentally landed in Edinburgh, Scotland, instead, 850 kilometeres from where it should have been.
British Airways said in a statement to the Business Insider that the plane ended up in Edinburgh after the flight paperwork was submitted incorrectly.
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"The pilot said he had no idea how it had happened. He said it had never happened before and that the crew was trying to work out what we could do," Sophie Cooke, a passenger on the flight, told the BBC.
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03-25-2019, 07:05 PM
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Lucky for them.....
Edinburgh is far nicer than most German cities, anyway.
Plenty of good pubs to slip into for a pint and a wee dram
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03-25-2019, 07:57 PM
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03-25-2019, 09:29 PM
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03-26-2019, 08:53 AM
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This has actually happened quite a few times in the past. The on-board computer is fed the wrong info and the plane's auto-pilot flies it where its told to. Another case of technology getting ahead of the dimwits flying the plane.
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03-26-2019, 09:49 AM
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Reminds me of an old joke.
In 1960, an TWA flight landed at Berlin airport. The pilot got lost taxing to the terminal and caused a traffic back up.
The ATC was upset and radioed to the pilot, "You American pilots! Have you never flown to Berlin before?"
The pilot relied, "Oh yes, many times, during the war. But I never landed here."
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03-26-2019, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by JustRalph
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Gilligan: I was marooned on an island for 15 years with a guy who could build a nuclear reactor out of a pineapple but he couldn't fix a hole in a boat.
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03-26-2019, 09:29 PM
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Gilligan: I was marooned on an island for 15 years with a guy who could build a nuclear reactor out of a pineapple but he couldn't fix a hole in a boat.
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He was a genius. With Ginger and Mary Ann around would you want to be rescued?
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03-26-2019, 10:35 PM
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Good point!
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03-26-2019, 10:40 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by horses4courses
Edinburgh is far nicer than most German cities, anyway.
Plenty of good pubs to slip into for a pint and a wee dram
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We flew into Frankfort at the start of one of our European trips. I thought it might be the Detroit of Germany.
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03-27-2019, 10:31 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom
Reminds me of an old joke.
In 1960, an TWA flight landed at Berlin airport. The pilot got lost taxing to the terminal and caused a traffic back up.
The ATC was upset and radioed to the pilot, "You American pilots! Have you never flown to Berlin before?"
The pilot relied, "Oh yes, many times, during the war. But I never landed here."
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Keep your day job, chimp
With material like that, The Tonight Show won't be calling anytime soon.
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Want to know what's wrong with this country?
Here it is, in a nutshell: Millions of people are
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03-27-2019, 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by horses4courses
Keep your day job, chimp
With material like that, The Tonight Show won't be calling anytime soon.
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I heard that on the tonight show, Johnny Carson days.
I think it was Jimmy Stewart.
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03-27-2019, 02:59 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom
I heard that on the tonight show, Johnny Carson days.
I think it was Jimmy Stewart.
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Yep......I’m holding back all my Buddy Hackett material
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