--- title: Swiss Air Force Disrupts Yodeling Festival With Fly-By description: A squadron of Swiss fighter pilots caused a stir when they mistakenly performed a fly-by over a local yodeling festival. canonical: https://time.com/5622656/swiss-air-force-yodeling-festival/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-09T15:22:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:25.965Z og:title: Swiss Air Force Disrupts Yodeling Festival With Fly-By in Wrong Town og:description: The jets reportedly weren't equipped with GPS technology og:url: https://time.com/5622656/swiss-air-force-yodeling-festival/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f08054c6e82102a/6989ffb38fd2ee15a035fc25/swiss-air-force-yodeling-festival.jpg?branch=production&width=507&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 507 og:image:height: 285 og:image:alt: Swiss-Air-Force-Yodeling-Festival og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Swiss Air Force Disrupts Yodeling Festival With Fly-By in Wrong Town twitter:description: The jets reportedly weren't equipped with GPS technology twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f08054c6e82102a/6989ffb38fd2ee15a035fc25/swiss-air-force-yodeling-festival.jpg?branch=production&width=507&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Swiss Air Force Disrupts Yodeling Festival With Fly-By in the Wrong Town > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 9, 2019 3:22 PM UTC  Bavarian couple dancing at Oktoberfest Bavarian couple dancing at Oktoberfest Sebastian Julian—Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 9, 2019 3:22 PM UTC A squadron of Swiss [fighter pilots](https://time.com/5598764/air-force-pilots-penis-sky/) caused a stir on Saturday when they performed a fly-by over a local [yodeling](https://time.com/5236173/walmart-yodeling-kid-ellen/) festival instead of the event they were scheduled to appear at. A spokesman for the Swiss Defense Ministry has apologized for a navigational error made by the Patrouille Suisse — the Swiss air force’s aerial display team — that led to the squadron mistakingly flying over the 31st Northwest Yodeling Festival in Mümliswil rather than a celebration taking place in the nearby municipality of Langenbruck, the birthplace of Swiss aviation pioneer Oskar Bider. The spokesman told [German newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung](https://www.nzz.ch/panorama/patrouille-suisse-haelt-flugshow-ueber-falschem-ort-ab-nzz-ld.1494323) that the jets were not equipped with GPS technology, according to the [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48916084). The fly-by was meant to take place over an event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the death of Bider, who became the first person to fly over the Alps in both directions in 1913\. But the squadron ended up nearly 4 miles off course after the team leader spotted a tent for the yodeling festival in Mümliswil. Not to worry, though, according to the [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48916084), the yodeling festival attendees reportedly enjoyed the unscheduled flyover. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5622656/swiss-air-force-yodeling-festival/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5622656/swiss-air-force-yodeling-festival/"},"headline":"Swiss Air Force Disrupts Yodeling Festival With Fly-By in the Wrong Town","datePublished":"2019-07-09T15:22:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:25.965Z","description":"The jets reportedly weren't equipped with GPS technology","url":"https://time.com/5622656/swiss-air-force-yodeling-festival/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre","Switzerland","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f08054c6e82102a/6989ffb38fd2ee15a035fc25/swiss-air-force-yodeling-festival.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f08054c6e82102a/6989ffb38fd2ee15a035fc25/swiss-air-force-yodeling-festival.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Swiss-Air-Force-Yodeling-Festival","caption":"Bavarian couple dancing at Oktoberfest","creditText":"Sebastian Julian—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5622656/swiss-air-force-yodeling-festival/","name":"Swiss Air Force Disrupts Yodeling Festival With Fly-By in the Wrong Town"}}]}] ```