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This is your captain speaking: "Unfortunately, I'm not qualified to land the plane in Paris."

Well, i will agree what they said
"quite unusual but probably not unheard of." Britain's Civil Aviation Authority

This is your pilot: 'I'm not qualified to land the plane'

It's a confession no passenger wants to hear a pilot make over the cabin intercom:

"Unfortunately, I'm not qualified to land the plane in Paris."

But as Britain's Metro tells us, that is exactly what happened yesterday morning during a flight from Wales to Charles de Gaulle airport, where it was foggy.

Passenger Cassandra Grant, who was headed to Paris for a job interview, explains:

"Twenty minutes outside Paris, the captain said, 'Unfortunately, I'm not qualified to land the plane in Paris. They are asking for a level two qualification and I only have a level five. We'll have to fly back.'"

The Flybe flight returned to Cardiff International, where it had taken off three hours late because of bad weather.

The airline defended the unidentified pilot's actions.

"He has not yet completed the requisite low-visibility training to complete a landing in conditions such as the dense fog experienced in Paris Charles de Gaulle. At no point was passenger safety compromised," a spokeswoman said.

Britain's Civil Aviation Authority called the incident "quite unusual but probably not unheard of."

source: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/12/this-is-your-pi.html?loc=interstitialskip

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