[DUMBGRUNT]

All fun until you have to make like the Gimli Glider over the ocean.

[lodi90]

Air Asia? Insert Sum Ting Wong joke here. LOL.

[Ken H]

Geez, who hasn't gone to the wrong continent at some point in their lives?

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Luckily this guy wasn’t leading the Doolittle Raid.

[Redcitizen]

At least they didn’t land where MH370 landed.

[Fiji Hill]

Melbourne, Fla. (MLB)? That’s a long way from Malaysia.

[yarddog]

That is worse than Wrong Way Feldman. Actually I don’t really know but it might be.

[Billthedrill]

Well, they both start with the letter M. Could happen to anybody. At least it wasn’t Missoula, Montana.

[Cementjungle]

Melbourne airport is 722km southwest of Sydney. Kuala Lumpur is 6,611km northwest.

7,000km is so darned close anyone could have made that mistake.

[Mat_Helm]

Check compass heading and do not rely on autopilot inputs......oooppssss

[Celtic Conservative]

Too much automation in the cockpit. Pilots seem to be taught to manage systems more than actually flying the plane. The pilot flies the computer while the computer flies the plane.

CC

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Melbourne, Malaysia

[yarddog]

I just saw a program on “The Smithsonian” channel about China Air 006. The 747 fell from 41,000 feet to near sea level rolling and turning the whole way.

They eventually determined it was pilot error after losing one engine.

Interestingly the pilots did an incredible job of saving the plane as it literally had large parts of the wings and fuselage torn off. They had to lose altitude by adjusting speed and turn using other means than normal.

They ended up making an incredible landing.

The pilot had thousands of hours flying in 747s and they think he thought his instruments had gone out because the plane was doing things it couldn’t do. It turned out the instruments were correct.

[dfwgator]

He must have made the wrong turn over Macho Grande.

[max americana]

Sounds like my Waze when entered wrong LOL