Pilot flew to the wrong country, proving everyone has their bad days

An Air Asia pilot may want to consider an extended holiday after flying his plane to the south-eastern Australian city of Melbourne instead of the (very different) South East Asian country of Malaysia.

In March of 2015 an AirAsia X Airbus A330 had an intended flight path from Sydney, Australia to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Unfortunately for the passengers on-board a snow ball effect of technical errors meant they ended up in the wrong country.

Findings from an investigation undertaken by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau were issued this morning, stating that on the aircrafts departure, the air traffic control observed the plane departing from a parallel runway which had them on an incorrect flight trajectory. The flight crew blamed an issue with their on-board navigational system. The report then found that all attempts to reboot the navigational system only furthered the error and overflowed into the aircraft's control system. 

Normally this is where one would throw in the proverbial towel and head back to the start, but due to poor weather in Sydney, the plane had to continue on to its new destination of Melbourne, quite literally in the opposite direction, on an entirely different continent.

Look it's an easy mistake to make. Both places begin with the letter 'M' and they're only two hours apart, time-zone wise, so it's a slip up waiting to happen. Or not.