AirAsia is under fire after a flight from Kuala Lumpur landed at Gimpo Airport instead of its scheduled destination, Incheon Airport.
An AirAsia flight from Kuala Lumpur to Incheon triggered confusion and criticism after it made an unplanned landing at Seoul’s Gimpo International Airport on Wednesday night, with passengers initially told they had arrived at their intended destination.
Originally set to reach Incheon at 7:50 p.m. on Wednesday, AirAsia flight D7 506 reportedly touched down at Gimpo at 8:08 p.m. after circling in the air.
According to passengers on the flight, after the captain announced they had arrived at Incheon, people stood up to retrieve their bags from the overhead compartments, but some looked out the windows and checked their phones to find they were at Gimpo.
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“Everyone panicked.
