The Singaporean budget carrier has taken a dig at AirAsia following a navigation blunder which led to one of its planes bound for Kuala Lumpur from Sydney landing in Melbourne instead.
When the Singaporean publication Todayonline published a report on the matter, Scoot added a comment when the article was uploaded on Facebook.
“Talk about a spontaneous escape! Scoot flies to Melbourne 5 times a week…and not by accident,” read the comment by Fly Scoot Facebook account, which included a smiley as well.
On Wednesday, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) had revealed that the captain of the AirAsia flight manually copied the coordinates from a sign outside the cockpit window into the system, and later analysis showed a "data entry error".
Instead of entering the longitude as 151̊ 9.8’ east, or 15109.8 in the system, the pilot incorrectly entered it as 15̊ 19.8’ east, or 01519.8.
"This resulted in a positional error in excess of 11,000km, which adversely affected the aircraft's navigation systems and some alerting systems," said the ATSB.
Normally, the captain would conduct an external inspection of the plane while the first officer stayed in the cockpit and, among other tasks, completed the position initialisation and alignment procedures.
"On this day, however, the captain's ear protection was not available so he took over the cockpit tasks, which included entering their current coordinates, usually given as the coordinates of the departure gate, into the plane's internal navigation system,” said the report.
This was among the reasons cited for the Airbus A330 landing in Melbourne just after 2pm, some three hours after take-off on March 10 last year.
The ATSB also noted that the crew had "a number of opportunities to identify and correct the error" but did not notice it until they had become airborne and started to track in the wrong direction.
AirAsia X later confirmed that it had taken corrective actions immediately following the incident, and prior to the publication of the ATSB report. - Mkini
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