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Old 25th Oct 2009, 21:26
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Originally Posted by Avman
You've all got it wrong. They loaded DTW, their other hub, iso MSP into the FMS. The error only came to light when the F/A intervened.
I think this is a plausible theory and one that can be easily proved by looking up the destination airport as stored on the Flight Data Recorder / ACMS. Of course, there are more holes in the cheese in that scenario too (such as loosing radio-contact).
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