Airline passengers lands in wrong Manchester

Thursday, 12 Jun, 2006 0

He had never heard of Manchester in New Hampshire, but Jim Hourihan now knows there are at least two of them and one is the wrong place.

He boarded a Continental Airlines flight in Los Angeles headed for England before finding out on a connecting flight in Cleveland that he was going to New England —  specifically Manchester in New Hampshire.

“When I first saw the plane, I thought ‘That’s not going to Manchester, England.’ And it was then that it dawned on me. There must be two Manchester’s,” he said.

Mr. Hourihan, a resident of London, was not the first person to confuse the two Manchester’s, said newspaper accounts.

Mr. Hourihan’s response to arriving at the wrong place: The New Hampshire in America was OK, but it could have used a few more pubs.

Report by David Wilkening



 

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