Chennai/Kochi: About 32 passengers from Thiruvananthapuram on board an Alliance Air flight were shocked to find themselves at Kochi airport on Monday after the pilot announced that they had landed at Kozhikode.
Air traffic controllers are flummoxed by the pilot's statement that he thought he had reached Kozhikode and that there was some navigational error.
A spokesman of the airline, meanwhile, said the flight landed in Kochi because of a last-minute change in the crew's duty timing.
An airport official said it is impossible for the pilot not to know details of the airport he was coming in to land at.
A senior ATC official at Cochin airport said the Alliance Air flight headed to Kozhikode was not scheduled to land at the time. "Since it sought landing permission, we gave it a slot," he said.
17/01/12 Arun Janardhanan & Ajay Kanth/Times of India
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