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Friday, August 11, 2006

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain. We have just landed at . . . er, the wrong airport


Ryanair pioneered the art of flying passengers to far-flung airfields across Europe.
So it should have come as no surprise yesterday to travellers on board Flight 9884 from Liverpool to City of Derry when they landed five miles away in Ballykelly Camp army airfield.
Ryanair passengers are also accustomed to not having an air-bridge to get them inside the terminal, but in this case they didn't even have any steps to get them off the jet.
Luckily, the flight's original destination was close enough for ground-staff to bring the steps by road to the army base.

The Civil Aviation Authority began an investigation into how the Airbus carrying 39 passengers and six crew landed at the virtually disused based known as Shackleton Barracks.
At first the passengers on board Flight FR9884 thought the pilot was joking when he told them he had landed in the wrong airport, but when they looked outside and saw their plane surrounded by British soldiers, they knew something was wrong.
Last night, Ryanair officials admitted the pilot flying the airliner on behalf of the firm had made a mistake.

Damm it... and the day after tomorrow my girlfriend will take a Ryanair flight...
But I'm still a fan of the low cost companies, namely Ryanair.

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