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At Los Angeles International Airport back in the spring of 1985, a passenger who was 22 years of age and heading home to Oakland in California wound up instead going approximately 12,000 miles out of his way because he boarded a flight which was heading to Auckland — in New Zealand — because he thought the person who was announcing the departure of the flight with a New Zealand accent pronounced the name Oakland instead of Auckland; and he did […]
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