The flight of British Airways had to go to Germany. He went to Scotland.

Passengers of a British Airways flight connecting the City Airport from London to Düsseldorf in Germany were surprised Monday morning when their plane landed in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.

The trip mistake is due to a bad flight plan, which has led the pilot and cabin crew to believe that the flight was bound for Edinburgh.

The flight was operated by German leasing company WDL Aviation on behalf of BA CityFlyer, a subsidiary of British Airways. The incorrect flight plan was filed at the offices of WDL Aviation in Germany.

After landing in Edinburgh, the plane took off a second time for Düsseldorf.

Piotr Pomienski, a student at Imperial College London, told CNN that his girlfriend Zsófia Szabó was in the plane that had landed in Edinburgh by mistake. "I saw on Flightradar that the plane was flying north rather than south, but I assumed it was a system error. That's until she wrote that they were in Edinburgh. "

Szabó told CNN that she realized that something was wrong when she saw mountains outside the plane, instead of the usual "German industrial landscape".

"When we started going down and I saw hills / higher mountains, I thought it was not what the East of the Netherlands / Germany should look like. West, but I thought we had made a small detour, "she said. "Then my colleague sitting in front of me asked me to check Google Maps – and that showed us that we were close to Carlisle."

"The news then spread quickly enough, everyone started asking everyone where he was going – everyone was in Düsseldorf."

"When we landed, there was a hilarious moment when the flight attendant asked people traveling to Düsseldorf to show up by show of hands, which turned out to be everyone," she said.

The captain then apologized to the passengers, telling them that the plane would refuel before traveling to Germany.

"Most of us have found the situation quite amusing," said Szabó. "People were on phone calls trying to convince everyone that they had arrived in the wrong city."

His Tran, another passenger on the flight, told CNN: "Most of the passengers are sleeping or working on this flight, so no one really noticed that we were not flying over the Channel. Scotland only when we went down and we asked the crew. "

In a statement, a spokesman for British Airways said the airline was working with WDL Aviation "to establish why the wrong flight plan had been filed."

"We apologized to customers for this trip interruption and will contact them individually," said the spokesman.

WDL Aviation said in a statement: "We are working closely with the authorities to investigate the risks of confusion in the handling of flight schedules, and passenger safety has not been compromised at any time. the passengers of the flight with number BA3271 in Düsseldorf after the involuntary stopover in Edinburgh. "