Posted on 01/13/2017 2:45:19 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Finland's national airline is not superstitious. Finnair flight AY666 took off from Copenhagen and flew to Helsinki on Friday the 13th. What's more, the baggage code for Helsinki airport is HEL.
Finnair has been making this flight for many years, but it gets particularly attractive whenever it happens on Friday the 13th.
The last flight under similar circumstances was on May 13, 2016. It landed successfully three minutes late without any problems.
“It has been quite a joke among the pilots. I'm not a superstitious man. It's only a coincidence for me,” pilot Juha-Pekka Keidasto said previously.
“If there's some passenger who is anxious about this 666, our cabin crew is always happy to help them,” he added.
I’ve been to HEL and back. It’s a pretty cool place.
Having superstitions seems like it might require a liberal thought process.
Was Bruce Dickinson at the controls?
GMTA!
It will be a cold day in Hel before you see me on this flight.
Also, the boarding line should pass under a ladder.
They renumbered the highway near Gallup, NM, due to complaints from residents. That road is trouble, but mainly due to its being on a reservation. It went from 666 to 491.
How many complaints versus how many signs stolen by teenage boys?
So from the map..if you land in HEL...its Puck???
It’s pronounced, “Pootsk”.
Highway to Hell
US 666 was a spur route of US 66. It was orphaned when US 66 was decommissioned in 1985.
US 666 was a spur route of US 66. It was orphaned when US 66 was decommissioned in 1985.
HEL is the airport code for Helsinki. However that map looks to be on the other side of the Baltic Sea. Maybe there’s a (linguistic) connection, but I doubt it.
But....if you’re flying from Copenhagen to Helsinki, you might cross the Hel peninsula in Poland.
Playback of Finnair flight AY666
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ay666/#c286973
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