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Nepal Plane Flies Passengers To A Wrong Destination, Report Cites Error In Flight Numbers
Buddha Air’s flight U4505 was expected at the arrival airport of Janakpur at 3:15 pm and the airplane never made it. Instead, it reached Pokhara airport.
A commercial plane bound for Nepal’s Janakpur reached the wrong city on December 23, alarming and confusing all 69 passengers on board. Nepal’s leading airliner Buddha Air got caught up in a strange miscommunication after routes were interchanged for the private carrier that ended up the plane 255 kilometres from the destination city, in Pokhara, PTI reported the incident, citing sources of Kathmandu Post. Buddha Air’s flight U4505 was expected at the arrival airport of Janakpur at 3:15 pm and the airplane never made it. This led to further investigation and the plane was reported to have flown to the wrong city altogether.
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The weather was not quite favourable for the flights on Friday so carriers were making use of every available weather window to take the passengers on board as quickly as possible and take off, the report said.
Nepal-based airline Buddha Air plane landed at an airport 250 miles from its intended destination due to a communications mix-up.
On December 18 Buddha Air flight from Kathmandu s Tribhuvan International Airport had been scheduled to land at the southern city of Janakpur, but instead travelled to the city of Pokhara, about 250 miles away.
The weather was not quite favourable for the flights on Friday so carriers were making use of every available weather window to take the passengers on board as quickly as possible and take off, the report said.
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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.