BA lands at WRONG airport - Edinburgh instead of Dusseldorf

[yanrair]

Originally Posted by Super VC-10

Westwind Aviation Flight 280 crashed on 13 December, a passenger was killed.

my apologies quite correct. One passenger died in 2017. I missed that one because I did a sort on airliners >100 pax and it didn’t show the ATR 72 On that flight. When you look At fatalities worldwide they usually include light aircraft, gliders and military , and when you do that , the numbers soar. But since most passengers don’t fly on these I exclude them and speak of “civil airliners “.

[CargoOne]

Not nice but can happen easily. Just a miscommunication between WDL and BA or possibly inside WDL. BA departure control system in airport was registering correct boarding passes to DUS. But it is not connected to WDL ops sustem who (for one reason or another) sent a crew briefing package for EDI...

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by yanrair

my apologies quite correct. One passenger died in 2017. I missed that one because I did a sort on airliners >100 pax and it didn’t show the ATR 72 on that flight.

ATR 42, in fact.

[bar none]

Way back when SAS operated DC9 freighters they sent the Copenhagen Manchester night freighter to Helsinki and the Helsinki aircraft to Manchester. Two wrong destinations in one go.

[SquintyMagoo]

So the pilots knew they weren't landing at DUS?

[wiggy]

Originally Posted by SquintyMagoo

So the pilots knew they weren't landing at DUS?

As mention in previous posts yes, it seems that way - the Flight Crew went to their planned destination...EDI.

[PerPurumTonantes]

Originally Posted by BEA 71

Now we have almost five pages of funny comments and of boy scout stories.
Could we now resume to facts, please !

You're not from round here, are you?

[Super VC-10]

You should see what happened when a well-known Irish airline tried to troll BA over this on Twitter. Some of the responses were crackers.