My guess is this
happens all the time. We just don’t hear about it.
I remember an old story about a guy who flew to Auckland, NZ who thought he was on a flight to Oakland, CA.
Of course we wouldn’t hear about it.
Why would they admit that all the draconian security measures they’ve inflicted on us allegedly for our protection, aren’t working?
We might actually demand to have the TSA abolished, or some such reasonable thing.
“My guess is this
happens all the time. “
I doubt that very much. With the cost of fuel, and staff, plus the hell it wreaks on the aircraft’s forward going flight/crew schedules, the airline would not want to do this unless told to do so by authorities.
“My guess is this
happens all the time. We just don’t hear about it.”
Even if ‘The System’ is 99.99% perfect, that 0.01% still leaves room for a large number of errors.
“2,587,000 passengers fly every day in and out of U.S. airports.
26,527 average daily scheduled passenger flights.
9,709,000 scheduled passenger flights in 2016.”
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/by_the_numbers/