Dude, where's my flight crew?

[Erlanger]

In USA Today;​

Ever leave home on a trip with a nagging sense that you left something important behind, like maybe your passport, or your wallet? Something like that happened last week to the captain of an Asiana Airlines domestic flight from Seoul to the Jeju Islands.​

According to an English language report in The China Post, the Seoul Times reported on an Aug. 8 incident in which an Asiana captain took off without any of his flight attendants aboard. Flight attendants, of course, are required to be on all commercial flights to perform safety-related functions. The pilot didn't discover his mistake until about 30 minutes into the flight. (Wise guys are suggesting the cabin crew's absence wasn't noticed until the captain's usual first cup of coffee didn't show up on time in the cockpit.) In any case, the embarassed captain returned to Seoul to pick up his abandoned crew. It's not clear whether customers were aboard the flight, which was headed to the Jeju Islands to pick up passengers stranded when another Asiana plane suffered a pre-flight malfunction.

 

[SKC]

I had read that it was just a ferry flight.

 

[A Squared]

Strictly speaking, that would be "dude where's my cabin crew"