Dec. 23 (UPI) Police and a bomb squad responded to a river on the outskirts of a British city after a magnet fisherman reeled in 19 World War II-era grenades from the body of water.
Che Williams said he was using his magnet to search for metal debris in the River Tame at a location just outside of Birmingham when he pulled the first grenade out of the water.
Williams said he remained in the same spot and pulled up a total 19 grenades, which appeared to date from World War II.
The magnet fisherman noticed two of the grenades still had their pins in place, leading him to contact police.
Nepalese airline flies passengers to wrong destination over 250 km away. Here’s why
According to local reports, the confusion happened when the ground staff and the flight attendants failed to brief the flight’s captain and co-pilot that the flight’s number had been changed. Updated: December 25, 2020 4:13:23 pm
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Passengers onboard a flight in Nepal were literally taken for a ride when they landed at a destination which was over 250 km away from their intended place of arrival.
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The Nepalese airline was supposed to fly south to Janakpur from Kathmandu s Tribhuvan International Airport but instead it flew north west to Pokhara in central Nepal There was miscommunication between the ground staff and the pilots, an official from the airline told The Kathmandu Post. The flying pilots also did not look at the passengers’ manifest.
Poor weather conditions meant flights to Pokhara were permitted until 3pm. Buddha Air took action and changed the flight numbers around and transferred the 69 passengers intending to go to Janakpur onto a flight cleared for Pokhara by air traffic controllers.
While everything was in the right order on paper, the ground staff and the flight attendant failed to brief the pilots about the change of flight number and so they flew the plane to Pokhara.
Passenger flight in Nepal lands in wrong city
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A Buddha Air flight from Kathmandu s Tribhuvan International Airport to Janakpur mistakenly flew to Pokhara instead, about 250 miles from the correct destination. Photo by Solundir/Wikimedia Commons
Dec. 23 (UPI) A Nepal-based airline said a plane landed at an airport 250 miles from its intended destination due to a communications mix-up.
A Dec. 18 Buddha Air flight from Kathmandu s Tribhuvan International Airport had been scheduled to land at the southern city of Janakpur, but instead traveled to the city of Pokhara, about 250 miles away.
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Astha Basnet, executive officer at Buddha Air, told CNN the error stemmed from lapses in communication and failure to follow detailed standard operating procedures.
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When the 69 passengers aboard Buddha Air’s flight U4505 landed in Pokhara, Nepal, last Friday, they were shocked. After all, when they boarded the flight at Kathmandu s Tribhuvan International Airport, they had expected to fly to Janakpur the exact opposite direction from the capital,
Janakpur is normally a 30-minute flight southeast from Kathmandu, while Pokhara is about a 30-minute flight northwest. The cities are about 158 miles apart.
The local paper reported that there was “a lot of hustle and bustle at the domestic terminal” that day, paired with a “breezy afternoon” where the “weather was not quite favorable for the flights,” causing delays.