[nickcarraway]

I looked it up and Jeddah is 600 miles from Riyadh?

[nickcarraway]

How hard is this to do?

[Pearls Before Swine]

What’s the difference? Jeddah and Riyadh are both a lot closer to Mecca than Pakistan, /S.

[Cyber Liberty]

Thank goodness that never happens here....

[kaehurowing]

Not that unusual. I once boarded a flight to Honolulu and we instead landed on Maui.

[boycott]

Imagine the smell on that bus. I’d have to hold my nose but I would likely still throw up.

[DannyTN]

Why wouldn’t they have just flown them, instead of renting buses? Something doesn’t smell right. And it’s not just the passengers.

[Cvengr]

Maybe that 91 yr old nuclear phycisist who was demonized by the administration, and his property seized for being a terrorist right after the Malaysian Airliner disappearance, knew more than is being revealed. Are these flights being remotely controlled/hijacked?

I’d think there are other natural checkpoints in aircraft operations that would raise large red international flags even if it was intentional pilot error.

[kabar]

And Jeddah is on the coast while Riyadh is right in the middle of country surrounded by desert. I lived 5 years in Riyadh. I find it inconceivable how he could have mixed them up.

[Gay State Conservative]

Assuming that Saudi,which I've never visited,looks something like its two neighbors,the UAE and Oman (which I have visited),this is an easy mistake to make,IMO.If you seen one grain of Arabian peninsula sand,you've seen them all.

[Kenny Bunk]

I sympathize with the PakiPilot. These countries are like flying over miles of used Kitty Litter, tough to pick out one lump from another. The Persian Gulf could have been a clue, but then again these airliners haven't got much in the way of rear view mirrors.

I hope the passengers got back to Riyadh in time for prayers and to spend quality time with their cousin-wives.

[Chode]

and nobody in the Jeddah tower thought anything odd about this unscheduled plane in their pattern asking for landing clearance from RIYADH???

[doorgunner69]

Hey, in all that sand, got to look about the same!

[SkyDancer]

probably the identifiers were close and they just punched in the wrong one. If you have say KJHR and KRJH real easy. But - the FO is supposed to cross check what the PIC put in or other way round. I don’t know what the identifiers for those two airports are.

[fanfan]

Seems there is some aeroplane skullduggery afoot.