Stranded over Afghanistan
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Stranded over Afghanistan
As we crossed Afghanistan yesterday lunch-time, we heard a poor harrassed pilot who sounded British with a 6 figure alpha-numeric callsign, flying-I think- from Bangkok to somewhere in Europe. He had just been refused entry into Turkmenistan, so negotiated a re-route to enter Uzbekistan/Tajikistan. Guess what, they refused him too, so he told Kabul that he was diverting to Goa and headed south for Pakistan.
Now I know that you know what came next! As we exited stage west, he was in a holding pattern awaiting some diplomatic magic from the Kabul controller after Pakistan had refused him entry too! I offered to buy him a beer, but it was a fairly safe bet that he wasn't going to be in the same continent as me last night!
If anyone knows how the story ended, I'd love to find out!!
Now I know that you know what came next! As we exited stage west, he was in a holding pattern awaiting some diplomatic magic from the Kabul controller after Pakistan had refused him entry too! I offered to buy him a beer, but it was a fairly safe bet that he wasn't going to be in the same continent as me last night!
If anyone knows how the story ended, I'd love to find out!!
Please forgive the damn fool question, but shouldn't he have cleared his intended flight before arriving at the border?
Not much profit earned by that particular flight then. 
