Unintended mystery flight?

[codash1099]

Malaysia Airlines pilot queries flight path - National - NZ Herald News

 

[Hvr]

Beleaguered Malaysia Airlines suffered fresh embarrassment over the weekend after it was revealed a Christmas Day flight from Auckland to Kuala Lumpur flew in the wrong direction for eight minutes after air traffic controllers were given the wrong flight plan.


The New Zealand Herald reported the pilot of flight MH132 queried the route his Airbus A330 was taking after he noticed it was headed further south than expected.


Malaysia Airlines confirmed in a statement that there had been a mix up with the early-morning service's flight plans.

Read more: MH132: Malaysia Airlines confirms mix-up sent flight from Auckland on wrong path
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Sounds like everything that could go wrong did in relation to this flight except for the outcome with all arriving safely if slightly late.

I'm sure our pilots will have some thoughts on these compounding errors and where they should have been picked up.

 

[Aussie_flyer]

Seems like mostly a big media beat up because its MH

 

[moa999]

Sounds like it flew according to the filed flight plan

 

[Walter_Plinge]

A reader in the Daily Mail (believe it or not) writes:

Again, dramatization of an incident that is not quite as DM reports. It would appear that the Flight Plan was inserted by Malaysian Ops into the FMC via ACARS, to meet more favourable conditions at cruise level en route back to Kuala Lumpur. The crew assumed that it was going to be standard routing, direct

 

[codash1099]

A reader in the Daily Mail (believe it or not) writes:

ABC online suggests one plan was loaded into the computer but ATC were given a different one.

 

[N860CR]

That's not entirely surprising. I'd say MAS flight planning made an adjustment to the plan and just neglected to file an update to flight service (Airways NZ). The writing in the article is very poor, leads the uneducated to think the crew "got lost". It seems the flight departed as it should have - however not as the NZ controllers thought it would

 

[jb747]

It's a very strange article.

Nevertheless, it would seem to show that there was a difference between the filed flight plan, and the remotely loaded FMC plan. You're supposed to check one against the other after the FMC is loaded, then when the ATC plan is actually cleared, you're supposed to check that as well.

 

[Punky]

Nevertheless, it would seem to show that there was a difference between the filed flight plan, and the remotely loaded FMC plan. You're supposed to check one against the other after the FMC is loaded, then when the ATC plan is actually cleared, you're supposed to check that as well.

I asked another pilot about it, and he replied that it happens from time ti time, and that he'd had it happen.....