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Angry Ulster rugby fans missed out on going to a crucial game against Northampton after their flight was cancelled due to a pilot no-show.

The fans were due to travel on a Flybe flight from Belfast City Airport to Gatwick at 8.20am yesterday, giving them plenty of time to get to the Heineken Cup quarter-final in Milton Keynes for 2pm.

While waiting in the departure lounge they were told the flight had been cancelled after the pilot failed to turn up.

The passengers were then offered a later flight at 12.05pm, arriving in Gatwick around 1pm.

But according to one disgruntled fan, Belfast primary school teacher Paul Fitzsimons, that would have been too late.

Paul, who was hoping to attend the match with three others, including his father, said they were all gutted to miss out, watching it instead on television back in Belfast.

“We’re all Ulster season ticket holders and were really looking forward to the game — their biggest game since winning the Heineken Cup in Dublin in 1999,” he said.

“We got to the airport at 7.30am, checked in, went through security and were waiting to get the flight when it came up on the board that it had been delayed. At that stage we thought it would be okay and that we’d still make it in time.

“But then it came up that the flight had been cancelled. When we asked what was going on we were told it was a technical issue, but eventually they told us the pilot hadn’t turned up.

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http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/irate-ulster-rugby-fans-miss-big-game-as-pilot-a-noshow-15140708.html#ixzz1JBlfuquu

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