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“Congratulations on Friday the 13th! Would you like to fly to hell? Flight 666 is leaving soon! “- something like the largest Finnish an air carrier could advertise one of its flights, for example, last Friday, October 13th, if I wanted to show a little sense of black humor.
Unfortunately or fortunately, last Friday such a flight became the last one. Finnair operated a flight for 11 years AY666 from Copenhagen to Helsinki however now ominous the designated trip will be renamed, and henceforth the flight will be worn name AY954.
As for hell, in the international flight system the city Helsinki is designated as HEL: in English it sounds exactly like that same as “hell”. Last Friday, the 13th, the plane took off at 13:20 from Copenhagen and landed safely at 15:55 in Finnish the capital. Starting next month, Friday’s route between these destinations will be renamed.
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Why? This remains a mystery, although, they say what exactly the word “hell”, to which someone suddenly paid attention, and became that a drop of “patience”, most likely for pilots and controllers, after which the airline’s management decided to abandon flight AY666, discarding all fears of possible ridicule in superstition. It’s better, as they say, to overtake than to end up …
Flight 666 is actually happy
However, Finnair representatives report that since 2006 year, Friday, the 13th, there were more than two dozen, and not one of these days with flight AY666 nothing bad happened. Moreover, statistics say that flight AY666 is extremely safe. Even special turbulence during such flights never was observed. Apparently, that’s why every Friday, including On the 13th, all places are bought up on this route.
One of the Finnish pilots chuckles:
Among us pilots, this has already turned into a kind of joke. Personally, I am not a superstitious person, and for me such mystical coincidences are not very exciting. Nothing to say about others I can not…
According to an official statement from Finnair management, the name flight was not changed due to any superstitions available to pilots, controllers or passengers, but because of certain technical nuances. However, the crew of the aircraft instructed to reassure any client who unexpectedly notice a creepy coincidence on his ticket.
Meanwhile, for example, the Dutch airline KLM recalled in last Friday, the 13th, to its customers that flights with the number 666 or 13th row in the company’s planes is not, and therefore not worry about than. Obviously, many other air carriers do the same …
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