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A Turkish Airlines Flight Flew an Extra 800 Miles and Still Landed on Time
Popular Mechanics ^ | October 23, 2018 | Sam Blum

Posted on 10/24/2018 8:30:11 AM PDT by C19fan

A Turkish Airlines flight journeying from Panama City to Istanbul, Turkey, took the brazen step of flying an additional 800 miles outside its usual flightpath, but passengers onboard might have otherwise been oblivious.

The re-route was a huge divergence from its usual trajectory across the Atlantic and through the Mediterranean, but thanks to excess windspeed harnessed by the jet stream, Flight 800 touched down on Turkish soil on time and unscathed.

Wired first noticed the Airbus A330's arch-shaped journey on the website Flight Radar. On a mock-up rendering of the flight, the plane traverses the U.S. eastern seaboard before skirting the Arctic Circle's edge and descending into Greek and eventually Turkish airspace.

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TOPICS: Science; Travel; Weather
KEYWORDS: aviation; erdogan; jet; kurdistan; receptayyiperdogan; stream; turkey; weather
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To: Daffynition

Since Erdogan took over they’re working 8 days a week to fall back to the 7th century.
Islam destroys everything it touches.


21 posted on 10/25/2018 9:41:49 AM PDT by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me)
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To: oldvirginian

We were there in the late 60s...when the Turks loved and respected the USA. The [common] people were lovely.

Today, I’m sure the sentiment is different.


22 posted on 10/25/2018 5:50:32 PM PDT by Daffynition (Rudy: What are you up to today? :))
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To: Daffynition

“We were there in the late 60s...when the Turks loved and respected the USA. The [common] people were lovely.”

That was the Turkey envisioned by Kemal Ataturk.
He wanted a modern nation built in the western style on a constitution that took islam out of the school room.

They had Kemals dream for a while but Erdogan has undone it all.


23 posted on 10/26/2018 9:43:57 AM PDT by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me)
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To: oldvirginian

Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, probably other nations, had the beginnings of quite modern societies. You can find pictures of beautiful women wearing nice outfits, lounging in public the way anyone would in NYC or Los Angeles. Then the fundamentalists came surging through and these countries have, at least socially, been drifting back to a Dark Age mentality. Very sad.


24 posted on 10/26/2018 9:48:03 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yes it is sad.
I have looked up photos of Iran in the early 70’s. It looked like any western nation. The men and women would have looked at home in NYC, London or Paris.

I agree with Winston Churchill that islam is the cruelest thing ever foisted upon mankind.


25 posted on 10/26/2018 10:04:10 AM PDT by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me)
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To: oldvirginian

Absolutely yes!

We traveled through many small villages/no electricity by ourselves; mud huts with a common well; always, always a villager would ask us to wait and summon [usually a young person] to translate; I knew enough Turkish to get by; and someone would come out to PROUDLY show us a JFK 50¢ piece; and then they would relay sincere expressions of his death. At that time, the USA was respected as a strong ally. Evidence, of the military bases we had there.

We found our Turkish neighbors to be lovely people. In the big markets; villager women would still walk behind their husbands. More western dressed Turkish women, probably educated, did not.

During that late 60s time, there was a lot of violent student rioting in Ankara; they were protesting that they had a university education, but there were no jobs for them use use their education at home. Many were going to Germany to get jobs; and they resented leaving their homeland.

We only see what the politicians say and think, but back in the remote villages, I believe common people think differently; more in the vein of Ataturk’s teaching. FWIW.


26 posted on 10/27/2018 11:56:27 AM PDT by Daffynition (Rudy: What are you up to today? :))
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To: ClearCase_guy; oldvirginian

Back in the 60’s I loved to visit Beirut; to me, it was a beautiful cosmopolitan city, rivaling anything that Europe has.

Now, it’s a refugee camp. Shame.


27 posted on 10/27/2018 12:00:01 PM PDT by Daffynition (Rudy: What are you up to today? :))
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