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09-07-2016, 09:30 AM
Pilot accidentally flies to the entirely wrong country in colossal stuff-up
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An Air Asia pilot may want to consider an extended holiday after flying his plane to the south-eastern Australian city of Melbourne instead of the (very different) South East Asian country of Malaysia.
SEE ALSO: Youngest pilot to fly solo around the world is serious teenager goals (http://mashable.com/2016/08/29/world-plane-teenager-record/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
In March of 2015 an AirAsia X Airbus A330 had an intended flight path from Sydney, Australia to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Unfortunately for the passengers on-board a s**w ball effect of technical errors meant they ended up in the wrong country.
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It feels like we're going south captain...
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An Air Asia pilot may want to consider an extended holiday after flying his plane to the south-eastern Australian city of Melbourne instead of the (very different) South East Asian country of Malaysia.
SEE ALSO: Youngest pilot to fly solo around the world is serious teenager goals (http://mashable.com/2016/08/29/world-plane-teenager-record/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
In March of 2015 an AirAsia X Airbus A330 had an intended flight path from Sydney, Australia to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Unfortunately for the passengers on-board a s**w ball effect of technical errors meant they ended up in the wrong country.
http://i.amz.mshcdn.com/Lop4IZek47nirctlIhLU0IrXre8=/fit-in/575x4096/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fima ge%2F202328%2Fair.jpg
It feels like we're going south captain...
Image: Australian transport safety bureau (http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2015/aair/ao-2015-029/) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/07/pilot-flys-melbourne-instead-of-malaysia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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