Last year, an AirAsia flight from Sydney due to arrive in Kuala Lumpur instead landed in Melbourne, authorities have announced today.
As reported in UK publication The Guardian, The flight was scheduled to arrive in Kuala Lumpur at 9pm on 10 March 2015 but the pilot entered the wrong coordinates into the plane’s navigation system, said a report published by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) today.
Due to technical difficulties, the captain was forced to swap duties with his first officer and he manually entered the plane’s current coordinates into the plane’s internal navigation system.
He should have entered the longitude as 151° 9.8’ east, or 15109.8 in the system, he incorrectly entered it as 15° 19.8’ east, or 01519.8. Melbourne airport is 722km southwest of Sydney; Kuala Lumpur is 6,611km northwest.
“This resulted in a positional error in excess of 11,000km, which adversely affected the aircraft’s navigation systems and some alerting systems,”
– The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB).
Due to various missed opportunities later to correct the error, the plane’s autopilot started to track in the wrong direction.
“Attempts to troubleshoot and rectify the problem resulted in further degradation of the navigation system, as well as to the aircraft’s flight guidance and flight control systems”, added the ATSB.
The pilot requested to return to Sydney but they required a ‘visual approach’, without the assistance of on board navigation systems, to land. Air traffic control in Sydney told them to instead head to Melbourne because of poor visibility. After three hours on the runway in Melbourne, the flight eventually arrived in KL six hours behind schedule.
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More overwelming evidence of AirAsia’s overall incompitence..!
So many keyboard warriors talking like they’re in the airline industry. Geez.
Oh dear!!Debbie O’Halloran
Omg!! They make many mistakes!! ?
Debbie O’Halloran no no really I think it was a semi emergency landing to fix a prob!!i love Air Asia it’s always an adventure!!!!??✈️
Coming lah…
At least it landed.. that still makes it 2:1 in favour of AirAsia. What? A stupid article deserves a stupid comment…
David Chapati Png
Your next flight Air Asia
Nana Chan
Its ok la.. at least he landed on a land & the plane is found..
Malaysians need to learn not to trust everything on the Internet.
That’s right. The 1MDB embezzlement didn’t happen. The government told us so…
Confirm Kena pecat
Adil Mansouri
Thineshraaj Naidu Jaya Raman I’ll speak to tony
HAHAHAHAH. This is the funniest headline ever.
Thineshraaj Naidu Jaya Raman Ikr. You should have given the chance. Knowing that there’s people like you ?
HAHAHAHAH. I’m not alone. HAHAHAHA. Imagine the people in the plane.HAHAHAHAH
Oh my!
MD Rizaleigh what happen ni?
ctrl+c then ctrl+v
Lia Harris we could see the block
Lolz ? In our dreams!
Aida Othman Nona Othman
Sib baek x melencong ke Diego Garcia Salina Shahabudin
Kalo g situ x jd tourist la kita jd p.i la ko kan ada camera canggih jgn gerak?
Tak yah nak neves2 Salina Shahabudin. Pilot vangang camne pun Airline ni juga yg kita mampu…
HaHaHa..Jgn Gerak. Assistant aku pegang lampu tu kelako.
Aida Othman ko buat aku double neves. Tambah meal satu lg. I eat when I neves
Quek Choon Chin
Lol ?
Jim Foo
Vijay Gunners keat
Elven Koay Li Xian omg I am taking airasia to kl next month
Jasmine Koay Chie Min lol.. No worries la. One-off incident
Yup don’t worry! 🙂
Mmm,Mmmm, gotta love that Airbus- pos.
I think the pilot wana go Melbourne lah
ha ha beter he selected melboune not auckland or willington in newzeland.otherwise flight would be sling on the ocean.finaly pilot fulfil his dream vist to melburne.happy nxt error trip to auckland ha ha
Do you wanna go airport?
I hope thats a joke!
Nur Ashikin Fathin Mohd Akhrir
Misleading headline. Data entry error caused the navigational system to malfunction. The pilots wanted to turn back to Sydney to get the problem sorted out but due to bad weather conditions, they were diverted to Melbourne instead.
Exactly! Even the admin doesnt seemed to read the article..simply unreliable and irresponsible!
But the primary data was wrongly keyed in by the pilot himself as in the article. No?
Yes but the headline made it look as if the pilot had keyed in the coordinates for Melbourne instead of KL.
They realized the thing literally few moments after the aircraft lifted off..yes it was an error that could have been prevented before the aircraft took off but things like this do happen, and given the situation, pilot did what they were supposed to do..brought the plane safely on ground to rectify the issue..it wouldnt be such a misleading headline should the aircraft landed back into Sydney..just that it diverted into Melbourne making as if the pilot didnt know that they were heading to Melbourne..in short words, pilot dont simply fly blindy..please read and understand the whole article before commenting anything..tq..
bare in mind this happened March last year..unlike any other industry, aviation do learn from mistakes..hence why the report took more than a year to be completed..impactful? i call that irresponsible journalism..
stupid reasons are not countable in this mater.its mater of 100 of passenger lifs who travel on board.reason like data entry code and decoding problem no one wil count it.its piolt and ATS responsible to check eveything befor flight take off.
“He should have entered the longitude as 151° 9.8’ east, or 15109.8 in the system, he incorrectly entered it as 15° 19.8’ east, or 01519.8. Melbourne airport is 722km southwest of Sydney; Kuala Lumpur is 6,611km northwest.”
How would they have had the fuel?
Christian ups
Wenn du beim Kreisel die falsche Ausfahrt nimmst…
Ausfahrt verpasst wegen Facebook. Oder irgendwas krasses gegessen, Durchfall, notlanden.
Oder grad ein Drink gemixt…wie das halt so ist
Aude Cognon comme quoi Il y a des avantages avec airasia
mdrrr . Ca aurait été lourd
Darren Lee YJ i wish i was in the plane!
And imagine these dumb heads fly airplanes and take us from here to there! It’s rather scary.
Reading the article would be good.. Actually combination of human error, bad weather and systems malfunction.. so misleading headline and you’re not smart enough to understand
maybe just an excuse…. pilot is hunting rare pokemon!!!!
That is soo funny… I like it
Malaysia boleh. All boleh. Boleh salah some more…
Misleading headline.. baca betul2
Nurhilman Rabbani
Was that supposed to be a joke?
yes a joke
Only possible for AirAsia, stupid airline
Would be less stupid if you actually read the article. Actually combination of human error, bad weather and systems malfunction.. so misleading headline and you’re not smart enough to understand
Would you mind reading again (smart-enough to understand),
“As reported in UK publication The Guardian, The flight was scheduled to arrive in Kuala Lumpur at 9pm on 10 March 2015 but the pilot entered the wrong coordinates into the plane’s navigation system, said a report published by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) today.
Due to technical difficulties, the captain was forced to swap duties with his first officer and he manually entered the plane’s current coordinates into the plane’s internal navigation system.”
He should have entered the longitude as 151° 9.8’ east, or 15109.8 in the system, he incorrectly entered it as 15° 19.8’ east, or 01519.8. Melbourne airport is 722km southwest of Sydney; Kuala Lumpur is 6,611km northwest.
Instead of justifying error, better concentrate on rectifying or rely on foreign experts, because without them smart enough malays are of no good use.
Yawn a racist asshole you are. No need justification
Douchebag
Sleeping?
Baca ah
Lol
Ray JonesTony SalterKate CassanoLaura Mitchell
WTF?!?
Unbelievable
Boleh ah
Hamid