BA lands at WRONG airport - Edinburgh instead of Dusseldorf
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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 “.
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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...
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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.