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CJ Cregg
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PostWed Jan 03, 2007 3:05 pm    Typo takes tourist 13,000 km out

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A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/29/germany.tourist.reut/index.html


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PostWed Jan 03, 2007 3:40 pm    

That is very funny. However, don't such flight websites usually show the country in which the destination is located (eg; shouldn't they tell him he's going to Sidney, Montana, United States of America)?

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PostWed Jan 03, 2007 4:44 pm    

They should, indeed. The person must have not paid much attention to what the site was saying.


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PostWed Jan 03, 2007 4:49 pm    

How could someone manage to do that? Plus... how did he get on the plane w/o knowing he was going to the wrong country...? Weirdo...

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