Emmanuel Akomanyi was attempting to travel to Guyana to undertake a life-changing scholarship to study medicine.
All was going to plan when he safely made it from Ghana to Guarulhos International Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
But it all went downhill from there as he tried to buy a ticket to Guyana.
He thought he correctly purchased a seat to the country on South America's Caribbean coast, but when he got off at the other end he was in the Brazilian city of Goiania - almost 3,000km away from where he needed to go.
He was forced to spend a week in his new destination, supported by strangers as he had no money.
The airline which flew him there eventually offered him a free ticket to Guyana.
You would think such incidents would be rare, but they were surprisingly common.
A United Kingdom couple boarded a plane which they thought was going to the southern Caribbean island of Grenada in 2014 - but instead they landed much sooner than they thought they should have, disembarking in the ancient city of Granada, Spain.
Remarkably, the same mix-up happened only a month earlier, except this time UK woman Lamenda Kingdon ended up on the 10-hour flight to Grenada instead of the short trip to Granada.
Other incidents include:
• A woman who wanted to travel to Dakar, Senegal, ended up in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• An 85-year-old woman ended up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after she booked a Southwest Airlines flight to Fort Myers, Florida because of an airline error.
• A VietJet airplane that took off from Hanoi landed at Da Lat airport, 140km away from Cam Ranh Airport, where it was supposed to be.
• A Southwest Airlines plane landed at a small airport in Taney County, Missouri, approximately 12km from where it was meant to land at Branson Airport. Taney County had a much shorter runway and the plane had to brake hard to stop before the end.
• A 21-year-old American student found himself on a plane to Auckland, when he just wanted to get to Oakland, California. According to the LA Times, he blamed it on the Kiwi accent: ""They didn't say Auckland. They said Oakland. They talk different."
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